I was born with big dreams. I devoured books as a little girl and was reading Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights in fourth grade. I won many writing and speaking contests and also dreamed of living in Colorado one day. I wanted to write books to change the world and pursue higher education as far as I could.
But by the age of 19, I had married, given bir…
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