A BLESSING IN DISGUISE

      My mother is a product of rape. My grandmother was fifteen and my "grandfather biologically" was nineteen. To this day he doesn't know my name and I'm the second child, however, he does know my older brother Curtis. He has being under the influence of alcohol for a while. He was my uncle's best friend so he was well known to the family. He was never turned in but my seven uncles all jumped on him which caused him to be hospitalized for a few weeks. My mother was a blessing in disguise. Without this incident, i would not be here. My grandmother has a been through a rough life which is why she is one of my role models. She not only was rape, but when she was seventeen her two older sisters died and her father  her  with four younger boys that she had to feed.  My grandmother dropped out of school and worked three jobs. She was a factory worker in the morning, a maid at a hotel at night and a cotton picker on the weekend.  She later thought she found love in my uncle's father who beat her unconsciously. My mom would tell us stories about how she would remember having to hide in the closet with uncle Johnny because she was so scared. She said they would fight and put holes in the walls. She later was blessed with the only grandfather (who is turning 90 years old this August ) I've known.
               My point is my mother stresses to all of her five children that life IS going to bring obstacles but its up to you to get around it or do something about it. I just feel that my mother's birth was a blessing to show other young women that women don't have to go through the same stuff their mother with through and you can stand up for yourself. She told herself that she was not going to go through the same b.s., like the beating my grandmother encountered, and that's probably why she is tough and don't take anything from my daddy. My mother was pregnant at 15 years old but finished high school. She had me at 18 years old and my sister Sabrina at 19. She married my father at 18 years and they had two more after they moved from Fort Campbell, KY to Mississippi. What makes me so proud of my mother is that she had four children and a husband when she went to OLE MISS and had A's and B's dude. She was pregnant with her last child when she graduated. She graduated at the top of her class (Phi Theta Kappa) with a B.A. in English. She is the only reason why I keep going everyday because i could have easily gave up after I had my child in high school but she would not let me. So this blog is dedicated to "A Blessing in Disguise" my mother, my hero, and my life.... Love you MAMA.