A Graduation Speech: Who's Kidd?

Keontrell,

Thank you for sharing your experiences with the class. It’s ODD, because generally I would say that, I enjoyed reading someone’s post or nice post, but these situations aren’t nice. Some of these are tragedies that are being expressed in writing, that rely on using strength and courage. Some of the actions that we take also rely on strength and courage or the actions we may want to take cannot be fulfilled without strength and courage.

First, I would like to say, I am sorry for what you and your sister had to go through. No one male or female should have to experiences such things. I cant say that, I had a similar experience to you, because, I was never injured by my sisters ex. However, I know what its like to have a sister
This was a few months after she took him back, a few months after she left the shelter for battered women. He gave her the speech of I’m sorry, I learned my lesson, it will never happened again, I don’t know what came over me, I’m clean, and I want to be a family etc. I still don’t know what caused their argument. We were having fun and playing a game and he started yelling and throwing things, he went to hit her and knowing of their past, I immediately went to call the police (thank god I lived across from the police station), but things moved so quickly that next thing, I knew he was dragging her outside by her hair in the middle of winter down a narrow wooden staircase. Would things have played out differently if I didn’t call the police, would have he made it out my back door if I didn’t turn my back, if my sister couldn’t fight him off would I have been able to? These thoughts used to plaque my mind, because my sister and I didn’t have much of a relationship. She resented everyone that was there for not coming to her aid, but I did or so I thought. How was I to defend my sister from a man ten years my elder and much stronger than my sister and I