I was born in the simple town of Layton Utah. Sadly a few years later contention grew ever more prevalent in my family, my parents growing farther apart. My father would come home late from a day of hard work, only to be ridiculed by my mother. I would hide in the closet of my sister’s bedroom, trying to block out the loud disputing between my parents. Soon the court papers returned, my parents now officially divorced. My sister and I were crushed, watching my father pack up his few items of value and drive off in our minivan. We had fallen into my mother’s custody, who was planning on taking the two of us to live with her mother and grandmother hundreds of miles away. I began to wonder if it was my fault my parents no longer loved each