Teen Ink

The freckles on her face make me wish I had freckles. No one else’s freckles do that too me. I hope she looks down at me and mocks me for swimming so slowly, I like the way she pronounces my name.

Despite poverty, abuse, Foster-Care, rejection, all the odds I have not and never will be defeated and neither are you defeated. Stories unlock stories when we share and it makes this world a...