I still don’t get why long term effects come from decisions made in adolescence- #not enough brain.
I don’t care that I was young or inexperienced. It doesn’t matter that my heart was so broken that all I could think of was an escape. It doesn’t matter that I knew everything, but the truth. No matter how foolish and short sighted my choice was, the answer was “college.” More like a one-way-ticket-out-of-Dodge-get-out-of -jail-free-card-sign-me-up-for-the-Christian-jubilee, #literally. But there had been another offering. My version of a birthright. What my mother could afford to offer me as a confidence boost to my young womanhood would have been gift and also a routine surgical procedure. It would have restored my smile.
I like to answer for what could have been, but I know she did the best with what she had.
I still don’t get it 