I Graduated From The School of Hard Knocks, With Honors.

My diploma was living to tell about it.

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One of the reasons I started writing, was because I’ve always believed my upbringing and early life, were unique and interesting if nothing else.

In my twenties, I thought it was the stories I had lived through and acquired throughout my short life that I had to offer the…