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    With Love, Bethany
    With Love, Bethany
    With Love, Bethany
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    With Love, Bethany

    By Paige P. Carranza

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    When Bethany was nineteen years old, after being kicked out of her parents' house, she gave birth to her first child, Jacob. Due to her involvement with Methamphetamine, Jacob is taken away from her. With Love, Bethany is the prequel to Lethal Quantities and tells us Bethany's story as she tries to go on with her life after losing her one true love; her son.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateApr 15, 2018
    ISBN9781387746392
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      With Love, Bethany - Paige P. Carranza

      With Love, Bethany

      With Love, Bethany

      By

      Paige P. Carranza

      With Love, Bethany by Paige P. Carranza. Published by Paige P. Carranza

      © 2018 Paige Carranza

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. For permissions contact:

      paigecarranzabooks@gmail.com

      Cover by Paige P. Carranza

      ISBN: 978138774639

      Call me Jewels

      Get the fuck out!  Get out!  Go!  You hear me you whore!  Get out!

      Please Momma, stop it please!  I sobbed through my begging.

      You wanna go get knocked up like a grown-up?  Then figure it out on your own like a grown up!

      I’m nineteen Momma!

      And you think that makes you grown?  Huh, you little whore?  You think you’re grown?

      No momma, I need you!

      She tossed a garbage bag filled with some of my clothes out on the sidewalk and the door slammed shut in my face.  I knew I should have been more careful where I left that goddamn test.  I wailed and screamed on my knees, my face burning from the initial slap of Momma’s hand on my cheek.  The burning intensified from the saltiness of my tears.  I looked around and saw curious, nosey eyes through every window on the block.

      What the hell are y’all looking at?  I yelled.  The blinds snapped closed on every window and I could almost hear their judging words about me being discussed over every dinner table in town. 

      D’ya hear about Jacob and Donna’s girl? Uh-huh.  Knocked up.

      They kicked her out on the street. I saw the whole thing. Wonder what she’s gonna do.

      Well that’s what happens when you’re a druggie slut.

      I stayed outside of that house all night.  I cried loud, hoping Momma would

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