Her Story
The summer of 1979, bands such as Bad Company, Kansas, Cheap Trick, and Styx were all popular and on heavy rotation on the radio. Disco music was becoming a hit among teens around the country. One girl, who we will call Tasha, was going to be a senior in high school. Her parents were divorced and she was alone, none of her family seemingly wanted her around. This dragged hard on her and she didn't feel strong or let alone happy. She lived with a family that she baby sat for, we'll refer to them as the Bakers. They made her feel as if she was one of their own kids. She worked at a theater, walking about two or three miles every day to work on one of the busiest streets in her town. In her early childhood, she was compared to her sister by others, they called her sister prettier and smarter than her. Her siblings would beat on her, pick on her, and lie about her to others. Her mother didn't take lightly to it, and resorted to babying her, this would make the bullying she received from her siblings worse, but she knew she meant well, as any mother would.