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Moving Forward
Graciela Basaldua Domínguez
MexicoGALLERYCONVERSATION
At thirteen my life took a hard blow when one of my sister’s boyfriends raped me. From then on I couldn’t have a normal life like...
I can still remember my first job. I worked as a cashier in a bakery. One of my neighbors, who saw how hard I was working, said to me one day: "Girl, you really are a hard worker! Why don't you sign up over at the Health Care Center, they're giving first aid nursing classes and in a year you can become a nurse and in two and half you can become a general nurse.” So I said: "Yeah, I'll go," and I started studying.
But when my mom's husband found out that I had been attending nursing school for the past year, he hit one of my brothers and said to me "So you think that with your little school you're going to make things better? You think with that you'll be able to pay all the household expenses? Right now I'm going to take your mother, and we're going away to some place else.
I started to look for work again, but I was underage.
I told him roughly how old they were and that I would send them over. It turned out that he did given them a job, tying up the fire crackers, counting them and putting them into bags. My brothers were really happy because now they had some money! From then we all were making money so we told my mom that we would treat her to something from the store: Coffee, because she like coffee, and her cigarettes. So we bought them for her, and we felt like we were really being useful.
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