in prison since I was 6 months old
explaining why her father was not present in her life.
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I walked home, already knowing I wouldn't tell her what just happened.
feared that her mother would do something since she expressed "she'd kill him" if a man put her hands on her.
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"Are you serious with this?
her mother with in disbelief
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"You want a teddy bear, a coloring book, and a Kenny Loggins album?
She was still a little girl that no one saw and that is how she wanted to be looked at.
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tape of songs by Kenny Loggins.
safe place for her to keep her mind off of what was happening in her life.
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"Ashley, just play it while you sleep at first," he said. "Then try playing it with just your closet light on. Then try playing it with no lights on. It helped my daughter when she was little. It might help you too."
by doing this, it made her feel that she was being looked at as a child and was being helped.
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adamant
definition- refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind.
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every day I got closer to not being a child at all.
Her biggest fear of having to grow up so fast
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"fatherlessness.
explaining to readers that some behaviors are always explained as an attribute of not growing up with a father
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What about me kept telling the rest of the world I wasn't a child?
Questioned herself why she couldnt just be seen as an adult.
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I stood there, shaking, gaping at my jeans and T-shirt.
She stood in fear, as she was just wearing regular clothes that anyone else could wear however, since she was developed it was taken differently.
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It was tighter than it had been three months ago
The reason why the mother reacted to telling her to change her shirt
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shaking her head.
Grandmother wondering when she developed so quickly and kind of ashamed of her is what I take when I see this
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changed out of my jeans and into baggy overalls
Made a point to ensure nothing was seen with bigger clothes
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Still, I felt the absence of his physical presence in my life. He was not there to embarrass me with bad jokes in front of my friends or look at me with disappointment. There was no way to tell him about the small victories or catastrophes in my budding young adult life. In some ways, I was grateful. My father didn't have to see what was happening to my body, that it was growing wildly, and how powerless I was to stop it. I could still be his little girl.
Her feelings to this reason of her being ok with her father not being there physically is probably because he is the only one in the world to see her as his little girl still despite of her growing body.
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"Go home and tell your mama she needs to be dressing you like you're 13. You almost didn't get treated like somebody's child."
Why would anyone speak to a child this way, makes me wonder what she was wearing? Or was it just because of her body that grew faster than she did.
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I was already running toward home and my tape player.
Her running towards her tape player was to help her get through this type of situation that she has to encounter since she felt like she was losing the battle
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My body was doing what it was supposed to do, and I would catch up
She knew that this was part of the process of growing up, and realized that eventually she would catch up
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