I Should Have Been    by Gabrielle Nonnenberg

    "You slut" is the last the last thing I heard from my former boyfriend. I couldn't believe that had just happened. My whole life was crumbling in front of me. First my mom died, then my grandpa got sick, then I get pregnant, and now Lamalle breaks up with me!"
    What are you going to do, NOW Ayvee? I thought to myself as I cried myself to sleep that night.
    The next morning I left a letter on the table for my father telling him that his "little baby" is about to have a baby herself . When I got home from school that afternoon I got the third degree from my father about how I had ruined his reputation as a minister and how I had ruined my own life.
    Finally at the end of the pregnancy we had come to the agreement that I was going to give up my baby, but after I saw my beautiful baby with her wide blue eyes and her little fingers and toes I fell in love! I decided that I was going to keep my baby and raise her to be a beautiful respecting and respected young women who was going to finish high school and go to college and be nothing like her mother. My father disagreed and disagreed but I finally won and got to keep my baby and name her Hope-Luve Joy Durogene.

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