Shortly after I was born, she married a man in the army to escape her mother. Of course, the marriage failed shortly after it began, and my mother turned to exotic dancing to pay the bills. When times were tough and there were no funds to pay for adequate daycare, it became "take your daughter to work." In my mother's defense, I was very young at the time and had never seen my mother dance on stage, but my earliest memories were of being in the dressing room and playing dress-up with the other dancers while she performed. This act is one of the many popular ways my mother would be guilty of. It's hard for me to think of any social norms that were part of my life while I was in my mother's care. I had many folk customs and customs too, such as the fact that I was given alcohol at an early age. When I was about four years old, my mother served me strawberry daiquiris in the guise of Slurpees because she needed me to nap. Growing up I didn't play Chutes and Ladders or Candy Land like other kids, my mother taught me Black Jack and Rummy. After some time of me becoming an obstacle in her social life, my mother entrusted me to my grandmother and