The Life Of Danielle Carpenter

The Beginning

Birth.

When you think about birth, you think about a dark, and cold place of a baby developing inside of a woman's stomach. That's really exactly what it is, without the disgusting aspects of it. A baby can be born two ways. The most common way is for the baby to be pushed out of the moms genital area. The second option is for the little sucker to be taken out by cutting open the mom. The second option is how I was born.

July 9th 2005. That's my birthday. I was supposed to be born on the 10th of August, but I got so aggravated of being inside of my stupid mother's belly, that I couldn't wait any longer.

The real reason I was born a month early, was that the stupid cord got wrapped around my neck, and now I look so ugly. There goes my only chance of ever getting a boyfriend. Stupid cord.

When I was being taken out of my mother, my father sang the Irish song called "Welcome To My World" by Jim Reeves. If I realized what was going on, I would've been so embarrassed. My dad said that the nurse was crying, and she said it was so wonderful. That's my father for you.

My dads name is Jack. He used to work at a liquor store, with a very good friend of his, but then ended up working at a printing place in Boston. He was one of the best workers there.

My moms name is Catherine. The last thing I know about her before I was born was that she worked at a gas station across from the liquor store. That's how they met. One day she walked across the street to get a scratch ticket, and of course my dad was the cashier. She asked him what his favorite candy bar was, and then the next time she came into the store she brought him a zero bar. That's when they started to hang out. Sounds romantic huh? Let's just say that's the last candy bar he will be getting for a long time.

I had to be kept in the hospital for a while before I could go home because I had a hard time breathing, and I had a birthmark on my face under my eye coming down to the top of my mouth.

Trust me when I say that I wish that they would've never let me go with my mother. My father would've been just fine on his own.

I don't remember much from my childhood, but from what I can remember, I think it was ok. I had a normal family. I didn't get to see my aunts, uncles, and cousins much because they were all mad that my dad got married to my mother, so nobody wanted to talk to him. Especially one of my dads sisters Marlene. She was the worst of everybody.

My dads maiden name was Walker, and my mother's maiden name was Miller. Now usually when a couple gets married, the female changes their name to the husbands last name right? Well, not in this case. My mother hated every single one of my dads family members, so she didn't want to take his last name, so they ended up changing their last names to Carpenter. You will find out why later on.

Everyone knew that my mother was trouble, so they wanted nothing to do with them. But as time goes on things change.

When I was a baby my first word was dada. Good thing it was. When ever my dad came home from work, I was so happy to see him, but surprisingly I had a good day with my mother most of the time. I was a baby so that was to be expected. She took me to playgrounds, and other fun kid places during the day.

We live in New Hampshire, and my dad worked all the way in Boston, so he had quite the drive home from work.

When I was still young, my parents got my birthmark lasered a couple of times so it would be lighter. It was like a dark purple color, but now it's a reddish color. We could've done it more times but it cost a lot of money, and we didn't have a lot of money.

So that was basically my childhood. I grew up in what seemed to be a normal family, but now I realize the my family was no where near normal. What even is a normal family? I have no idea.

I grew up not really knowing my other family members. I had no siblings, and no pets. I do remember one time when I was older that I had a pet turtle named Frank for like one day. I kept him in a bucket on the back porch, and when I went to go check on him the bucket was tipped over, and he was gone. It was very sad.

Eventually, I started meeting my family members. All of the family members I met were on my dads side of the family. I never met any on my moms side of the family. I never got to meet my grandparents because my dads parents died, and my mom said that her parents died also. My favorite cousin is Ayana. She is my dads favorite sisters youngest child. My father has a lot of brothers and sisters. His favorite sister Penny, is married to a man named Bill, and they have three kids. Ayana, Joseph, the only boy, and the middle child, and Morgan the oldest.

I have so many other family members but they are the most important. A lot happens with them, so keep them in mind. I don't really remember much, but I heard stories about them coming over our house, and us going to theirs. Most of our family members lived in Massachusetts.

This is getting kind of boring, so I will speed it up to when we start to become a abnormal family.

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I hope you enjoyed the book so far. I know this chapter seemed boring, but all of the stuff you learned will be very important to know as the story goes on. Now let's get to the good stuff.