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Alice Eldridge
I grew up in a small West Texas town without a plate to eat from, no spoon to eat with, not even a glass to drink from. Sometimes having to go through alleys up town to find food to eat. I left hom...view moreI grew up in a small West Texas town without a plate to eat from, no spoon to eat with, not even a glass to drink from. Sometimes having to go through alleys up town to find food to eat. I left home at fifteen with a three month old baby girl, a man seventeen years older than myself. I was uneducated, worked in the cotton fields, drove tractors, run irrigation lines, butcherd hogs inside the house, worked right along beside my husband. I birthed eleven children, miscarriaged a twin, suffered many forms of physical, mental, and sexual abuse, became an alcoholic and a drug abuser, lost all the children to the State of Texas, and endured many storms of depression. Never the less; through continued faith in Nichiren’s Buddhism, determination, and confidence in MYSELF, I am now clean and sobor, Got my GED, went to college, free of all addictions, and am completely happy and at peace with myself! I have no regrets.
Ms. Alice Fay Joy Young, Eldridge
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