Intro paragraph to PS......be brutally honest.
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:57 pm
I'm not entirely sure if this is the direction to go or not but this is what I have so far:
Almost seven years ago I was sitting in a Reno hotel with a man I thought I knew and loved. I was five months pregnant at the time and couldn’t believe what I was hearing. He was saying, “I am doing the right thing by telling you to give up the kid…you can’t raise it, you’re not good enough. I’ll wait around until it is born but then I am leaving the country to go teach English. Come with me, you always wanted to go to England and Japan…Listen, it’s me or the kid. Make your choice.” It was then that the past two years came rushing through my mind; the control, the silent manipulation, degrading everything I loved. It hit me then; he was just like my mother and grandmother. I had done quite nicely the past few years without them in my life and would do just as well without him. I would, in no uncertain terms, be given the ultimatum of having a man or my child. That was probably the best thing that could have happened to me. I set off on another journey that would lead me to going back to college, reuniting with my mother, learning patience, and having the chance to make a real difference in someone’s life. Everything I have done in the past six years has brought me back to who I am inside and rekindled my desire to practice law.
Almost seven years ago I was sitting in a Reno hotel with a man I thought I knew and loved. I was five months pregnant at the time and couldn’t believe what I was hearing. He was saying, “I am doing the right thing by telling you to give up the kid…you can’t raise it, you’re not good enough. I’ll wait around until it is born but then I am leaving the country to go teach English. Come with me, you always wanted to go to England and Japan…Listen, it’s me or the kid. Make your choice.” It was then that the past two years came rushing through my mind; the control, the silent manipulation, degrading everything I loved. It hit me then; he was just like my mother and grandmother. I had done quite nicely the past few years without them in my life and would do just as well without him. I would, in no uncertain terms, be given the ultimatum of having a man or my child. That was probably the best thing that could have happened to me. I set off on another journey that would lead me to going back to college, reuniting with my mother, learning patience, and having the chance to make a real difference in someone’s life. Everything I have done in the past six years has brought me back to who I am inside and rekindled my desire to practice law.