The Unwanted Daughter's Reckoning

s and a local community college acceptance letter sat on my desk, marking the day I was sup

evious life filled with relentless hunger, brutal beatings, and my famil

ing indifference, and my brother Kevin' s endless demands. I remembered the pregnanc

out!" Brenda's voice, a dreadful screech, tried to drag me back into the nightmare. The

r. "I'm not going to community college," I declared, my voice surprisingly steady. "I'm

ve that agoniz

ough the locked door,

free, no mat

e only way out, then they would le