Some of you may wonder why moving to Virginia was a turning point in my life, well one reason was th.t I needed a change of scenery in my life. Growing up in Upstate NY my family didn’t really start out with a good life. My parents were divorced and I lived with my mother who like the rest of my family from my mother’s side has been going through money trouble, health issues, and just stress throughout their life. Back in 2012 my mother and I had moved to my aunt’s house in Virginia because we were living paycheck to paycheck and my aunt didn't really like what we were going through, so she had decided to help us move to Virginia. I was going to enroll in Nova, but I couldn't go because i just did have the right paperwork to enroll in time, so then I just decided to skip a semester. Things were going great until my mother started missing my little brother who at the time lived with his father, and his father would basically make my mother feel
guilty for leaving him there. At the point in time my mother decided to move back to NY because she couldn't just leave him there with no mother. Now I didn't want to leave because I started getting used to VA and I wanted to stay, but I knew my mother would need my help, so I decided to move with her.
As the year went by and we started struggling with paying bills on time and just making enough money to make ends meat. At the time I was working full-time at Wal-Mart and my mom was working as a secretary at a hospital. We weren't making enough money since we had a lot of bills to pay, but we somehow managed to survive. During my time in NY I wasn't