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Last night I was glued to the tube watching the world premiere of “America” a lifetime original movie about an angry and emotionally uneasy foster “child” and his social worker who trys to save him before he ages out of the system. A very good movie and a must-see for anyone who can relate.

When I was born my mother was unable to care for me because she was diagnosed with a dangerous mental disease. My father wasn’t around yet. If my god-sent grandmother didn’t agree to raise me who knows where I would be right now. “Nan” raised me for the most part. My father was there on and off, he was a good dad. My mom did what she could but many times I was watching her instead of the other way around. I had to make sure she didn’t try to hurt herself or start painting the walls.

As a teenager I was a wild one. Cursing, stealing, running away, leaving for “school” and doing things I wouldn’t dare document. I was in the streets for no apparant reason and government workers could not slow me down. They were there though, driving me to the local clinic for an STD test or helping me clean my room. I was off the chain because my upbringing was all twisted. I was vulnerable and the devil was having fun with me. The town truancy officer knew my story and I was scaring everybody who loved me. I was sippin on the wrOng juice and the rich side of my family would not let my immediate family forget it. They said I couldn’t make it and I wouldn’t have without divine intervention.

GOD blessed me with knowing someone who knows someone who knows of a program that may help me. HANDY (an acronym for Helping Abused Neglected Dependent Youth) Fed me, clothed me and placed my accomplishments at their desks. They hooked me up with a nice apartment, monthly giftcards and money for my light bill. Kirk and Christina… Like family to me.

I finished my selected trade school for massage therapy, obtained a job in my field, working fulltime and in school part time to further my career in hollistic healthcare. I’v truely been blessed. I wasn’t exactly ready to appreciate my blessings but they were there, givin to me by the hands of a non-profit organization sort of like the one in the movie “America”

When I have my millions in a couple years I will help the 17 year olds who have no idea what to do with themselves. €he 8 out of 10 kids who end up dead, homeless or in prison…

AmERicA was a great film and can you believe the young actor who played America has never acted before???!! Rosie o donnell (who plays the social worker) found him in a diner two days prior to shooting the movie. Maybe that’s the reason his performance seems so natural. Some of my best pictures were a result of my first photo shoot …it just flows the first time :)…Have a good one guys, stay blessed.

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