It's In The Blood, It's In Our Nature

When I was fourteen, my the nineteen year old brother killed a woman in a home invasion. After eighteen months he was given sixty to life. My parents broke up, we went from making it to poverty, all money plus borrowed money went to defending him. My parents argued it was self defense because the woman attacked defending her babies. I agreed with the verdict. The woman is dead because they wanted to rob her, and her babies list their mother.

I went to live with a friend's family after I was thrown out.

I graduated and went to junior college, got a scholarship and finished college. Went to work and became the girlfriend of my married supervisor. Overnight I went back to living like the slut everyone expected. It's in the blood, that's what they told me, I was born that way. I couldn't disagree, I was a slut, sleeping with a married man. His wife divorced him, his kids don't have a father, they are in poverty.

Why is the question I don't have an answer for. I am who I am, a slut. No better than my brother.