Chapter 5

October 1983-October 1984

We moved back in with Mom’s parents for a bit and I started kindergarten. The Teacher had her favorites and I wasn’t one of them. There was a play store where we could pretend to shop for groceries. I got to be the cashier, once, and it was maybe the best thing that had ever happened to me. Then we moved into a roach-infested apartment behind a liquor store and switched schools. My little brother was kidnapped by a local tweaker. The police brought him back the next day. We moved to a two-bedroom fourplex across from the high school.