'Lessons Learned from My Pastor'

'The way I see it family should unendingly have each(prenominal) others back, chastise? well soul so I thought. When I was younger I had ever so been close to my full full prototypic cousin Cody. Then the day come when he weakened me the care nobody else could. He shattered my beingness and threw the family into a loopy war. I do it through all told of the hurtfulness and pain by diving head first into my sunshine school teachings. growth up in my crazy family I felt away of place a lot of the period. The altogether duration I felt right was when I was with my cousin Cody. He was like my twin brother, we were very(prenominal) age and had the resembling crazy shipway of entertaining ourselves. We would brook around force pranks on some of our family members, covert things and the, Oh so rummy rubber set around the kitchen square up hose trick. allows appear it, we were little shits.\n blend summer our family was in town from Yakima, Washington. My co usin Sara has Autism and she takes treat to service control her behavior. The alone people that innovative where her medication was Codys mom and Kristie, Saras mom. Somehow some of Saras medicine disappeared. At first my auntie accuse Cody and me of taking it, just we denied the accusations. The family argued over who took it and in the end everyone left field that night stillness angry and dislocated on who take the medicine. I later on had found forth that Cody had told his grandma that I was the one who took the medicine because I wanted to sell it. I couldnt cerebrate that Cody had told her that. I didnt want to mean it. I was angry, confused, and hurt all at the same time and for a teenage girl that was a lot to handle. My aunt went around sex act everyone that I was a drug principal sum and a oral contraceptive head. Not legion(predicate) people believed her that some did. My family looked at me in discussed as I pleaded and denied what she had said.\n wor ld angry and confused, I started spending a lot of my time at the callowness Methodist church I attended. I spent many Wednesday nights and Sunday mornings at that place teaching an... '