A Long Way from Home

Posted on August 21, 2017 By Amber E. Ruiz In Print, Nonfiction, Student 2017, Writing Contest Winners

Picture it. The judge telling you that you are to move to another state 1,000 miles away: away from everything and everyone you had known your entire life. My baby sister was almost one, but she would be in good hands with my grandfather. My mother was gone on another of her drug binges, and she signed custody over before…