A Life Assembled Piece By Piece

Synopsis

Everyone in our small town said it, their eyes always filled with pity: I was the child nobody wanted. My parents divorced when I was little. My father didn't want me. My mother remarried and moved on with her life. Only my grandmother truly cared for me, and then she was gone, too. After she passed, all she left me was forty-five dollars and the old trailer we called home. I grew up on meals from neighbors. I relied on student loans to finish my education. I worked tirelessly to secure a good internship, proved my worth, and turned it into a permanent job after graduation. This year, I finally paid off every cent I owed and managed to save my first real nest egg. As the clock struck midnight and fireworks lit the sky, a new year began. That difficult life was finally behind me. My new life was beginning.