Life has not always been ideal, but perfection doesn’t exist; I never expect it to. Surrounded in a bubble the innocence I was born with left me blissfully ignorant of the situations in my household, however once I turned ten everything changed. For the first time in my life I could no longer hold onto the familiarity that I grew close to; I felt lost. The house I had always known, whose walls were my childhood canvas and whose corners were filled with faint memories, was being sold and I had to adjust to the idea of leaving my only home. Shortly after settling into my new home, my mother had my baby sister, Demetria Alexis Malinoski. Gaining a younger sibling caused another dramatic change in my life, always being the younger child growing
