LB About Me Page at Helium

My passion is ...

children's rights

I know too much about ...

wine.. I don't even drink it

My parents always told me ...

pay attention... wait, what was the question?

My childhood ambition ...

to perform on Broadway

My favorite memory ...

From today? Going grocery shopping... alone.

Why I write ...

Because I don't know what else I would do.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

American:The Book

My first job ...

Dog walker and babysitter

My best moment ...

and my most painful, giving birth

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Early childhood memories: 76 of 98

Brave New World The summer I turned ten I spent two weeks hunkered down in the passenger side floorboard of a U-Haul truck. My mother, stepfather, two-year-old brother and I were moving cross-country from San Francisco to Chicago. There was only enough room in the cab for two adults and a car seat so I was given the dubious honor of tucking myself discreetly away from the prying eyes of the highway patrol. Me and our cat, Button Nose Duffy. It was our sixth move in seven years. We had lived in Oklahoma, Louisiana and San Francisco with multiple moves within those states. My stepfather, Ral...
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