Part 1: Before the storm

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Reagan was easily the cutest three-year-old in town. She loved playing on her sit&spin and watching Barney. Being young is simple. No cares in the world. Not a clue about what she would find out about her mother a few years down the road.

Reagan sailed right through first grade and into second, with straight A's. Little did she know by the middle of that year, her mother would meet a man who would ultimately become Reagan's worst enemy. And her world will falter.

Around seven or eight years old, Reagan's family noticed her acting wild. Her mother was married by then, to Anthony. Reagan despised him. She told her teachers at school that he touched her.

Her mother, equipped with Reagan's little half brother in her womb, and her now step-father, packed all them up, and moved cross country. From the beaches and warm weather of California, to cornfields, snow and icey Indiana.

It was in the middle of the school year, Reagan only attended two months of the third grade. Her mother didn't enroll her in school until the next year. As a fourth grader, who missed pretty much of third grade, Reagan struggled to make sense of the subjects she was being taught.

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