Heather Dixon:  

Life I joined classmates for one reason, to possibly meet my half brother Joshua. I only know that he is older than me, and that my father was too far into drugs and the party lifestyle to be a father. Well that didn't stop him when he became my father. Him and my drug addict mother broke up when I was just a baby. Both continued to abuse drugs. My mother, my sister Summer and I were in and out of shelters, and sleazy sec.8 apartments where she still continued to abuse drugs and her children. She over dosed a few times, and beat me till I had so many marks on my body that people started to take notice. We ran away a few times. Meanwhile my father lived in Minnesota with his new wife and one biological daughter and two of her children. I did get to visit him there a few times and I loved it. I would have so much fun I didn't want to go home. One year, a few days before my birthday while I was there visiting, a police officer came to the door and arrested my dad. Tammy his wife, told all of us that he went in for a ticket and he would be out soon. So I flew home and a few years later when my sister and I were about to be taken away from my mother I found out that my Dad would be in prison for nine years and I couldn't go live with him. He wasn't in jail, but in prison, it wasn't a ticket, it was conspiracy to manufacture meth, with inte...Expand for more