Deserving Respect
By Molly, age 13, California
She deserves respectshe has been through so much
more than you will over go through in your lifetime
she is only thirty
her dad was an alcoholic
he left her at a young age
never to return again
until
she was 19
graduating college
walking down the sidewalk
after graduation
a bum comes up to her
it's her dad
they meet eyes
he scratches his head
takes a sip from his flask
and asks for money
and that's only what she feels comfortable talking about