I was told my grandmother died two weeks before thanksgiving. My mom pulled me out of school for the week so I could attend the New York funeral. Upon arriving in New York, my mom got into an argument with her fiancé (my grandmother’s son), and we were told to not attend the funeral. On December thirteenth, I was told my first stepdad was going to be deployed to Afghanistan, on the tenth of January. This would make it so he left ten days before my birthday-my thirteenth birthday. After five years of being together with her fiancé, she broke up with him as he […]