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20 Years Later. So much more than I ever expected.
When I entered my senior year of high school in 1996, I couldn't wait for it to be over.
Not because I didn't like school or people there because my school, Jackson Central-Merry, was amazing.
We were award-winners and record-setters both…
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What Happened When I Told It
When I started writing my first book, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother, I just wanted to tell my story.
Mainly, I wanted to encourage every teen mother not to give up herself, not to quit high school, and…