Karah

My Memaw had like 10 of us cousins down there every single day, every day in the summer.

And even my mom's side of the family, they are the ones that truly supported us, that loved us.

And not necessarily sheltered us, but they were just exactly that, like such a fucking support system that we needed.

You know what I mean?

And they, that was like our normal life when we were down in the malls.

So...

Another problem that I think also where everything fucked up was, so my dad woke up in prison after serving 13 years and went to bed in our home the very same night.

And you don't realize then what it could do.

You're just excited dad's home.

You're just excited.

I finally have a dad here.

Like, finally.

Yeah.

get to you know experience what it's like having a family and you're so excited right I actually had went with one of my uncle my uncle that did go pick him up I actually went with him to go pick my dad up and I remember the night before we went and got him did not sleep I was just just thinking like oh my god what my life is going to change and I don't know how you know it's really really hard to express the feelings that you have at that age and

everything you've kind of just been through, you know.

It's a very big adjustment, yes.

So for the first couple weeks...

It was just odd.

It was very, very odd.

He almost did not know how to communicate with us.