PAST IS PROLOGUE

Last of the Unwanted Children

Breaking the cycle of violence and neglect

Photo by Jonathan Mast on Unsplash

My grandmother was born into poverty, in the northern part of the American Midwest, near the end of the Great Depression. She lived the first 17 years of her life in a place plagued by bitterly cold winters, in a home filled with violence, to a family that didn’t want her.