On the Run

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Hi! My name is Amber Goldberg and I am a 13 year old girl currently living in Philadelphia, PA. I live with my Aunt Velma or as me and my younger sister call her Curuella De Vil because she is the meanest woman you will ever meet, she's abusive too. She beats us every night before I cry my self to sleep. She kicks, slaps and one time cut my leg with a knife so badly we had to go to the hospital. She told the nurses, " Amber here was trying to kill herself and I got there just in time", and fakes a cry and then gives me a all tooth grin that makes her even more ugly.

I sadly had to live with my aunt because my mom and dad died in a car crash a year ago. They left me, my 10 year old sister, and their newborn with Curuella. Now we are all a year older and 10 pounds lighter because Curuella never feeds us. We got one chicken nugget a day and a glass of water. I had a job stocking shelves in my corner store and I made 20 bucks a day for working after school till 5:00 at night and from opening time they close, those days I'd make 40 dollars. We went to a public school right down the block from our house and my brother went to my moms friends hose, at least he was treated well there. Me and my siblings, we look nothing alike I am tall skinny, have hazel eyes, dirty blond hair, and I love to read. My sister, Lizzyis the total opposite she is short and skinny ( you honestly cant be fat in this house) has bright blue eyes and bleach blond hair and runs at the sight of a book to be honest she is the most beautiful 11 year old ever. My brother , Cory is a black haired, blue eyed, hyper little dude. They are the reason I am still alive, because if I am not alive they would be dead and I can not even think of a world without them. All the money I made at the corner store I use to buy food and clothes .

That was actually my better life, before it all went down