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Teen Alcatraz It was the year 1999, I was a reckless little 13 year old. I had been in and out of foster care for years. I had been adopted at 7 years old by a decrepit 50 year old single woman. She treated my foster siblings and I like we were trash. She was basically the wicked witch from the west. She used us and abused us she treated us like her personal slaves. I had decided that I could not go on living like this, and I was running away(predicate) and I would never return that house again.One cold night, my cousin and I decided our lives were intolerable. We planned our great escape. We threw our bags out of our bedroom windows. Then at exactly 1030, we walked out our front doors and ran to the nearest empty factory, and met there.We ran for hours and hours, our destination was an old abandoned trailor of my cousins. It was a crazy night. By the time we made it to the trailor, hours after I was dirty, mad, and I had wet pants. We walked inside, the broken down trailor and ju st started to get into pajamas and there was headlights in the driveway. I panicked and hid. My cousin yelled, Krissy, Krissy, its my mommy, I said, HIDE, because I was not going back to that tyrannical mother of mine. Well, I guess my cousin was feeling the same as me and she decided to fall out outside to her mother and rat us both out. Her mother, my aunt, let me stay with her that night. The next day at school, I was called to the principals office, and a skirt from the Department of Human Services was there. She proceeded to tell me that if I would not go home, right then and there, that their only choice was to send me to shelter.I, being as nave as I was, said, FINE At least I can start overSo, that very day they, transferred me in the middle of Social Studies tally to a place where they said I would love, and people would treat me how I wanted to be treated, this place would be called, Agency Shelter. It was almost five miles from Ottumwa, Ia. It was about an hour and ha lf drive. I was terrified, and happy at the same time.