Daria Burke

And I think I had a different kind of freedom and could therefore be in places with friends and with their parents that maybe created more points of exposure. I think as small children, there wasn't a lot of investigation or interrogation necessarily. And to be fair, one of the boys who lived next door, his mom had four children. Each of the children had a different father.

And I think I had a different kind of freedom and could therefore be in places with friends and with their parents that maybe created more points of exposure. I think as small children, there wasn't a lot of investigation or interrogation necessarily. And to be fair, one of the boys who lived next door, his mom had four children. Each of the children had a different father.

You know, they had their own kind of chaos, for lack of a better word. And so everyone had their own story that they were living in. And I imagine it's easy to get lost in the details of your own life when you're also working really hard to put food on the table and keep the bills paid and take care of aging parents or whatever the case may be.

You know, they had their own kind of chaos, for lack of a better word. And so everyone had their own story that they were living in. And I imagine it's easy to get lost in the details of your own life when you're also working really hard to put food on the table and keep the bills paid and take care of aging parents or whatever the case may be.

You know, they had their own kind of chaos, for lack of a better word. And so everyone had their own story that they were living in. And I imagine it's easy to get lost in the details of your own life when you're also working really hard to put food on the table and keep the bills paid and take care of aging parents or whatever the case may be.

I will say that there was one moment that there was a song that That came out in the 90s about it was children taunting another child that the child's mother was on crack.

I will say that there was one moment that there was a song that That came out in the 90s about it was children taunting another child that the child's mother was on crack.

I will say that there was one moment that there was a song that That came out in the 90s about it was children taunting another child that the child's mother was on crack.

And I do remember when that song came out. just wondering if anybody would figure out somehow that that was my story, that that was true for me. And I hated that song because it felt like I was being taunted through the radio.

And I do remember when that song came out. just wondering if anybody would figure out somehow that that was my story, that that was true for me. And I hated that song because it felt like I was being taunted through the radio.

And I do remember when that song came out. just wondering if anybody would figure out somehow that that was my story, that that was true for me. And I hated that song because it felt like I was being taunted through the radio.

I mean, kids would sing it at school, and so it was there. And I think I just tried to pretend like nothing was wrong, and I would just sort of ignore it and wait for it to go off or wait for people to stop singing it. No one ever sang it at me, but it always felt very much like I was at risk of being exposed.

I mean, kids would sing it at school, and so it was there. And I think I just tried to pretend like nothing was wrong, and I would just sort of ignore it and wait for it to go off or wait for people to stop singing it. No one ever sang it at me, but it always felt very much like I was at risk of being exposed.

I mean, kids would sing it at school, and so it was there. And I think I just tried to pretend like nothing was wrong, and I would just sort of ignore it and wait for it to go off or wait for people to stop singing it. No one ever sang it at me, but it always felt very much like I was at risk of being exposed.

Well, my mother didn't work, and we typically weren't getting child support from my dad, and so we lived on public assistance. My mother got food stamps, and there was a small check payment, cash payment, essentially, that we got every month.

Well, my mother didn't work, and we typically weren't getting child support from my dad, and so we lived on public assistance. My mother got food stamps, and there was a small check payment, cash payment, essentially, that we got every month.

Well, my mother didn't work, and we typically weren't getting child support from my dad, and so we lived on public assistance. My mother got food stamps, and there was a small check payment, cash payment, essentially, that we got every month.

And so it summed together maybe around $500 or so, $300 or so of that was food stamps, and then the rest of it came in cash that was really just enough to cover the mortgage payment and maybe the electric bill or the utilities. They were often off, and so those bills were going unpaid. We would generally do like one big grocery store trip at the top of the month, which was like Christmas.

And so it summed together maybe around $500 or so, $300 or so of that was food stamps, and then the rest of it came in cash that was really just enough to cover the mortgage payment and maybe the electric bill or the utilities. They were often off, and so those bills were going unpaid. We would generally do like one big grocery store trip at the top of the month, which was like Christmas.

And so it summed together maybe around $500 or so, $300 or so of that was food stamps, and then the rest of it came in cash that was really just enough to cover the mortgage payment and maybe the electric bill or the utilities. They were often off, and so those bills were going unpaid. We would generally do like one big grocery store trip at the top of the month, which was like Christmas.