About ten years ago, I was 11 years old and in fifth grade in Longmont. I had moved from Columbus, Ohio two years before with my mother and sister. We were escaping my mother's physically abusive second husband, and though we thought that Colorado would be a new beginning, it was really just another chapter in my mother's battle with alcoholism and mental disease. Unfortunately, my younger sister and I had to find a way to cope with our mother's issues.
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