Username: lusciousroxy
Gender: Female
Member since: September 6, 2008
Birthday: July 6, 1992

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Grade: High School - 11th Grade
Best Subjects: English / Literature / Writing

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I was born on July, 6 of 92 at the Martin Luther king hospital in East Los Angeles. The third child of Maria Angelina (20) and Cleofas Navar (22). I was born into a deprived lifestyle, in an inappropriate neighborhood. My parents did not have much education. Therefore, getting a job was very difficult. My mother never worked because she was busy taking care of us while my father worked. It was hard to attain a home. As a result, we had to rent a small, one bedroom apartment in South Central. They raised us the best they possibly could but it was extremely complicated to get us ahead. One day my mother could not put up with my father going out every night and leaving her alone. She decided to leave and take us with her to live with one of her friends. My father was very upset that night and was having trouble finding us. Until one day one of my father’s friends saw my brother looking for something in a dumpster and told my father exactly where he had seen him. After three days my father finally found us. My mother and father had a very serious conversation that night. That night determined my future. They spoke about who was going to be responsible for us. As the great father he was, he decided to take full responsibility for us. My mother let him with no hesitations whatsoever. Maria Anglina was pregnant with my little sister at the time. Hence, she abandoned us and left my father to fend for all three of us by himself. Luckily, my aunt accepted to help my father and take care of us while he worked. Two weeks later, my father went to a party and met a woman who he really liked. He had to tell her that he had three kids. This was not easy because she disliked kids. She liked him so much, she accepted to meet us. I was about two years old at the time. The moment she saw me, she fell in love with me. Fortunately, she got married to my father and that woman is now my step-mother, Elida Navar. For about two years everything was fine with my step-mother and my father. When I was four years old we found out that my mother, Maria Anglina was involved with a man who was caught up with drugs and was a drug dealer. He made her let him sell drugs in her home. Unfortunately, my mother was caught by the policemen with possession of drugs in her home with a minor in the house and was sentenced in jail for a while. My little sister was three years old and was living with her through everything. The policemen took my sister away from my mother, my father was notified immediately by a neighbor that my little sister was in an institute retained till the legal guardian would come to pick her up. After two days, my father found out where she was and went to pick her up. My step-mother and father thought everything was settled. Until my mother got out of jail, despite her background, she wanted 50/50 custody of all four kids. My father took her to court and it was final that my dad would have full custody of us. My mother got married to someone else and denied us when he asked if she had any kids. She made a family with him and basically forgot about us and never tried to keep in contact again. After that everything was going very well. My step-mother would live with my father on the weekends and go to her home in Hawthorne, CA on the week days to work. One day she got tired of doing that and she went to live with my father. Elida Navar gave up living in a three bedroom home in Hawthorne, CA and lived with my father in a one bedroom apartment in South Central. After a year she felt uncomfortable living there and decided to help my father buy a house in a better neighborhood. My step-mother was trying to find a way to get enough money to buy a home. She found out that my father had a work-related injury. My father never did anything about it. So after 5 years that the accident happened, my step-mother decided to sue the company he worked for. He won $15,000 and put all the money as a down payment for us to have a decent home to live in and in an appropriate area. They got a nice home and lived there happily. Elida would still go to her home most of the week days and started taking me with her. My father did not make it a big deal and thought it was fine. We did that till I finished elementary school. We had gotten used to doing that for all five years. As a result, my step-mother had me live with her permanently and enrolled me in Dana Middle school in Hawthorne, Ca. It was a very hard transition academically going into middle school because their teaching techniques were extremely diverse. I was not doing well at all, but being as determined as I am, I did not give up and I worked very hard to learn what was needed. It took me three years to catch up with all the students. Nevertheless, I succeeded and made the Honor Roll my final year in Middle School and received excellent grades. Everyone was extremely proud of me, including myself. My father is a great individual because he never gave up on us. He was always trying his best to get us ahead in life. He always gave up what he wanted to give us what we needed. I am extremely grateful to have our step-mother, Elida Navar in our lives, she has been a person who has never given up on us and helped us get where we are today. I greatly appreciate everything she has done for my family and I. There is nothing I can do to repay her for all she has done. Our father is someone who is very admirable because he had kids at a very young age with not much education. He worked constantly to get us ahead, unlike other men his age with children. As we were growing up, many of his friends advised him to give us away to the state and that things would be much easier if he did so. My father ignored their advice and decided to raise us no matter how hard it would be. I love and respect my mother. However I can not help but have resentment. I deem it was not appropriate that she abandoned us and left my father to take care of us on his own. It was a very cruel act and in a way has destroyed much of who I am today, because I can not help but think about what she has done to us. I can not be confident when speaking about my mother and life because I have nothing positive to say about her. She was never there when I made my biggest achievements in life. Such as graduations, student of the month, 1st place science fair winner, Honor Roll, and many more. Even the smallest events, if she would have attended it would have mad a big impact. She never called to say Happy Birthday, I love you, I miss you, Congratulations, she has never said any of that to my siblings and I. She did not do it because she could not keep in contact because she knew our number and where we lived but she never wanted anything to do with us. My Step-mother wanted us to meet my mother when I was about 9 years old and we went to see her. After that occasion we only saw her approximately 4 times, she did not try to keep in contact. We all moved on since then and when I tell everyone my life story, they tell me “Roxana, how can you keep a smile on your face and continue laughing despite your childhood?” I reply “you just said it, that was my childhood, I live in the present”. Till this day my family and I are trying to achieve our goals in life and we will continue to do our best despite my mother’s actions. I am very strong-willed and I will never give up. I want to prove to everyone that I can accomplish all my aspirations! :]

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• Hawthorne High - Hawthorne, CA, US (2007 - 2010)

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