Firebird misty5/12/2023 She and Gloria felt my presence reinforced their position. Though I didn't want anything to do with it, Mommy forced me to accompany her to court. Mommy accused Cindy and Patrick Bradley of manipulating me into filing for emancipation and said she wanted a restraining order to keep the Bradleys away from me for good. Hiring Gloria Allred was like posting the details of your life in neon on the Sunset Strip. Mommy took the Bradleys to court, hiring the well-known attorney Gloria Allred to represent her. Misty Copeland, the ballerina girl, had an upside-down life. Now the curtain had been thrown open for the world to peer in. We didn't always sleep around the corner from a highway lined with liquor stores and sketchy taco joints. We hadn't always called a motel - with a lobby window to slide our rent check through - home. After all, we hadn't always lived that way, with pallets on the floor. I'm sure Mommy didn't believe she was being neglectful. Eventually, Mommy applied for food stamps. Then we'd go to the corner to see if we could afford something to eat. We would run our hands around the couch cushions and through the carpet to find change. And I turned the rail into my very own barre, which I would grab hold of to balance as I stretched toward the sky. I would pretend the hallway was a veranda and I'd sit there, soaking up the sun.
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