I began having children at the age of nineteen. By the time I was twenty-one, I had three kids and lived in the “projects,” where they were exposed to constant drug dealing and violence. At age twenty-four, my kids and I relocated to Coffeyville, Kansas, with one of their fathers…

I would like to start off by thanking my Lord and Savior for seeing me through life. I was diagnosed with cancer at the age of sixteen. The doctors told me that I would not live to see nineteen, but by God’s grace, I did…