Karah

And it just not happened.

Right.

It just didn't happen.

My dad promised us a dog one time.

I remember he promised us that he I think this is when he started.

Let me back up.

OK, so about six months later, that's when he started getting on the drugs again.

OK.

He had brought around, I will never forget this specific friend that he brought around.

And we had talked about like the energy that prison can bring and then just how your intuition feels, like your gut feeling.

I remember the first time he came around, this man was up to no good.

You could look at him in his eyes and just know, whoa, you're not a good person.

Like you have a black cloud following you nonetheless.

and so my dad was that's when he started staying away from the house a lot more often we weren't seeing him as often we and if he was home he was home for like 10 or 15 minutes like 20 minutes just and we were like what are you doing like what in the hell is going on well

i remember one day i came home from school i was in middle school got off the bus and i walk into my house and my house is full of some pretty cringy dudes and i'm like where's my dad because he's supposed to be home my dad's nowhere to be found and i'm like what the where who are you and i just kept saying where's my dad and i remember going over to my neighbors

and just telling them like, hey, I don't know what's going on, but my dad has all these people in the house, he's not there, my mom's at work.

And that was, you know, situations like that, if the fights at home ever got bad, it was normal for me to run over to my neighbors.

Um, my mom raised me like on the weekends and stuff.

I did stay with my mom and in the childhood home during school, like the school week.

So I could go to school.