She was sitting there, next to her lawyer. She looked dead, she did not know what was going to happen, but she did know that she would pay for what she did. Her look was empty and her face told us that she was not in court with us, she was in her own world. When she realized, the time had passed and the sentence was said. She would spend the rest of her life in prison, but that would not be enough for the harm she has caused.
Everyone in our town respected my mother, Susan Mont. She was a single mother of nine children. All the citizens of the town knew her but they did not know her past. Five of my brothers were from her first husband, who abused her physically and emotionally, and the last four children were from her last partner, my father, who likewise abused her and beat her. In front of the community, my mother pretended that everything was fine, but in reality, we did not have enough
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She had just turned 16 years old and she was living the worse time of her life. She started to remember when she was 13. All the fights her parents had because of the lack of money. That was her motivation; she wanted them to be successful and do not have money problems ever again. At that moment, she heard footsteps coming down the stairs and his biggest nightmare came, again.
The day the Loans left, their daughters were happy for the opportunity their parents had. They were proud of them and looked forward to the day of seeing them again. When they moved to my house, they were surprised. We saw their faces and it was obvious how disappointed they were. The house was messy, dirty and very fragrant. They, like all the people, had another perspective on my mom, on us. When they went to the room where they were going to sleep, they realized the bad conditions that we were going throw. They had no choice but to accept everything since it was to help their