Question of Life

I grew up in a small town called Millerton which is in Pennsylvania. I was just my mom and I for the longest time. I never knew my real father so therefore I never had a father figure in my life. I was a kid that was very shy and did not want to leave my mother. I was a mama’s girl for a very long time because that is all I had. Then my mom owned her own business so I got where I would react more with people and then I talked all the time. In school I was very shy because everyone would ask me about my father and I could not tell them anything about him because I had no idea who he was. It was very hard for me when people asked that because I felt like the odd ball out knowing that everyone else has a father and I do not. Soon my mother was getting married to her boyfriend, then  I realized that this guy could be a father figure in my life, I was a small kid very happy knowing I was going to have a father figure in my life. My tenth grade year of high school he adopted me. This was something big in my life that I knew was a good change for me. I had the feeling that my family is complete now that I have a father. Now I could be myself in high school and know I was like everyone else. I can relate to a lot of the examples in Quiet. As I read the book I now see that no matter what happened that I could still have been myself.