“When I got into my bed I heard a solid steel click to my door. Out of my nervousness, I got out of bed and checked my door. A counselor was checking all the doors in the hall by rattling the doors which scared me back into my bed before any…
“The summer before ninth grade my mom decided she didn’t want to be a parent anymore, even though I had two younger siblings that were six and four years old.”
“I didn’t value their severity until her car pulled up to the gargantuan stone walls and expanded rolls of barbed wire. Again, I was confounded into silence. The long walk to the first of many doors I was about to go through felt like I was burrowing deeper and deeper,…