What does one do when they have hit rock bottom more than once? My name is Joy, I feel that I know rock bottom really well, more than someone my age should. You see I am only twenty-two years old, and I have gone through things you could only go through if you are in your thirties or forties. This in my case is not really a good thing. I will start at the beginning for those of you out there that are wondering what exactly I am talking about. I will start with my first downfall even though I have had people tell me that I was too young to remember. Back when I was a year old my mom and dad Jane and Ralph had gotten a divorce. You see back then I didn’t understand what a divorce was. And also while the divorce was being finalized I was recuperating from a surgery, I was born with a cleft palate. This for those who don’t know a cleft palate is when someone is born with a hole in the roof of their mouth. After my surgery and once they split up and got their divorce finalized, there was court after court over custody of me and also for child support. Through this whole thing I was going back and forth, but, my mom had me most. As I started to hit my fourth birthday, I started wondering why it was exactly that I was going back and forth and why I had to keep moving from one house to another. You see I moved a lot as is with my mom and then on top of it I was going to my dad’s. I also wondered why my parents were not together and why I had to go to two different houses to be with both parents. I didn’t find out till I hit my seventh birthday a lot of info that took a while to all sink in. You see my mom thought I was old enough to understand more than I did a few years ago (yea right, at the young age of seven the news I was told would be hard even for a ten year old). But, unknown to me it would bring me more downfalls than anything.
