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by Them Before Us | Jan 13, 2023 | Stories
I grew up in a single mother household. My parents divorced when I was six or seven years of age, my brother was three, and my sister was thirteen. When my parents divorced, we were living in California and my mom moved us to Michigan. My dad followed us, and they...
by Them Before Us | Jul 16, 2022 | Stories |
I am speaking up about these events for the first time in my life, at the age of 36, because no child should ever have to endure what I did, of which what I wrote is a mere summary, sparing many details and protecting many guilty parties of even more than I write. My...
by Them Before Us | Jan 16, 2022 | Stories |
My parents divorced when I was 11 years old. There are 5 of us children and I’m in the middle. When I was young, my father was a preacher, and I became a born-again believer in the Lord Jesus Christ at the age of 6. During this part of our childhood our mom was a...
by Them Before Us | Aug 24, 2021 | Stories |
I was raised in a Christian family by a loving Christian couple in the 90’s and early 2000’s. In the Midwest where there is a church on every corner, we grew up going to a Christian school and supportive church. It was in my early teenage years when divorce started to...
by Them Before Us | Jun 27, 2021 | Stories |
My parents were separated before I was even born and they got officially divorced when I was 1. My mom started dating women after that…and she also cut her hair very short and dressed kind of manly. My dad went to prison twice when I was younger for possession...
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