Writing has always helped me thru the hard times. At the age of 12, I remember rewriting the lyrics to “Mama’s Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” by Waylon Jennings. My version was titled “Bitches Don’t Let Your Puppies Grow Up to Be Guard Dogs”, and it was writing exercises like this that helped me keep my chin up thru some serious neglect when I was a young girl.