The year was 1989; in a small trailer live a small country family. The mother Sheri, had a problem, it was with alcohol. Her two sons, Robert and Gabriel, suffered the most. Robert was 12 years old and had to take care of his ten year old brother. It was hard but it was something he was use to.
In the morning the boys got ready for school on their own. They had to be very quit because Sheri was sleeping. Again she had come home late at night or maybe early in the morning. It just depended on when the bar keeper cut her off. The boys had to walk to the bus stop; it was over a mile away. They would go to school trying to ignore what they had to come home to. That happened to be nothing. On most nights the boys had to fend for themselves. They would stop by the bar; they knew that their mom would be there, to ask for a little bit of money for dinner. Some times they would get luck, but that was on days Sheri was to drunk to care.
The two years went by, and nothing change. Robert......

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Title: Learning From Hardships
Approximate Word Count: 776
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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