She planned her getaway and to fake her death with the timing of her period and hopefully a rainy night. She found an abandoned house close to a canal with alligators. She smeared her blood on an extra set of clothing and her purse and threw them on the bank of the canal that was in full sight of a road. It seemed everything in life was designed to tame Bailey’s free spirit when all she really wanted was to speak freely and think for herself. She was thirteen years old.
She started becoming a problem child about the age of three. Her parents seriously considered taking her back to the orphanage, but her mother wanted to adopt a child to save the marriage, a secret she kept to herself. Bailey was an extremely bright and free-spirited …show more content…
As a child with a free spirit, she was shunned by her family. She was a bad fit everywhere. She was even called out by her third-grade teacher during a Spanish lesson. Bailey, being fluent in the language, corrected the teacher whenever she made a mistake. The teacher sent home a note asking her mother to direct Bailey to stop correcting her. Her mother said, “No, I’ve been trying to get her to speak the language again, and if she corrected you, you said it wrong.” It was the first time her mother defended her, and it changed everything!
Bailey really shook things up in high school, when she befriended a new student who was not welcome simply because he was different! She went everywhere with him and basically got in the way of anyone who wanted to confront him! She thought of her actions as the right thing to do, but when she saw how grateful he was, she found her niche.
That boy she protected is nowhere to be found now, forty-eight years later, but Bailey is still ticking people off and loving it! Her books on abuse show it. Her blogs against commercialism draw disdain as well as praise. She has a way of presenting things in a way that actually makes some step back and think while totally confusing others who don’t think at all. She is still getting in people’s way, if that’s what it takes to get their