Then and Now

When I was a kid, I wanted to be popular. I also wanted to be thin, pretty, and well dressed. I wanted to have enough money to shop at mall stores and I wanted good hair. I wanted to buy bunches of books when the Scholastic orders were sent out from school, go on vacations to faraway places, and sit by the window in the back sometimes instead of in the middle. I wanted to get a leg every time we had chicken instead of just when one of my brothers wasn't home.

I wanted to move away from here, ...