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Thank you for adding the link.

Wow, I have been writing down a timeline for the last month at the request of my IC and have been astounded by the memories that have come flooding back in. I grew up in a broken family where my parents were D when I was around 4 years old. My brother is 18 months younger than me. We bounced around between mom and grandma for a couple of years and dad was out of the picture at the time. I still don't know the whole story behind the D and probably never will. We moved around quite a few times and mom got remarried when I was 6. She had another boy by her new husband and we moved from The Midwest to SE Texas when he was just a baby. We were only in our new environment for a couple of months when moms new husband began physical abuse. He would get drunk and hit her and yell at us. This continues for a few months until my uncle got involved and beat the tar out of this a$$hole. Uncle dragged his sorry a$$ all the way to the bus station and we never heard from him again.

Needless to say mom was stuck in a new town with no money and three little boys to care for. We went from apartment to apartment and school to school for the next 2-3 years. It was hard on her and tough for us too. At some point she called my dad and asked him to take me, my brother and half brother. He agreed and drove 1200 miles to pick us up. When he arrived I didn't even recognize him as we hadn't seen him since I was 4 and brother was a toddler. He had never even seen half brother. He took us back to our hometown.

We lived in another apartment there for several months where dad was the complex maintenance man and the apartment was rent free. One day we were At the gas station across the street and half brothers dad was there waiting. Dad goes in the store and left us in the car. Before he was able to get back the dad of half brother grabbed him out of the car and sped off. We didn't see him again until he was 10 years old. My mom hasn't seen him since he was in diapers. It has really eaten at her for the last thirty years.

After the kidnapping we moved around from apartment to apartment and school to school again for a year or so. Dad and his SO were pot users and dad drank heavily. He was never abusive or angry but couldn't hold a job for longer than a few months. At one point we were living in a tent at a state park campground and not going to school at all. This went on for several months, several cold months. No school no home eating lunch meat and crackers. Then dad gets a job offer on the eastcoast so we up and move to Delaware. Inner city school and we lived in an apartment with no furniture. Slept on the floor the entire time we lived there. About a year in he gets a DUI and decided to skip town. We moved to South Central LA. From Delaware!!

I will cut it off here for now and see if y'all want to hear more. If this is not appropriate let me know and I will go back to whining about my W. But I got to tell you, this is where the story starts getting good.