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My Daughter’s Messed Up Now But She Wasn’t Always That Way

Once upon a time, she was a beautiful, sweet little girl…Part I

Klara Jane Holloway
4 min readJan 11, 2022
little girl holding a leaf
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And this is her story before she became a drug addict. Part I….there’s too much to tell in one chapter.

My daughter, Katie, started out in life with a few strikes against her.

No one would have looked at it that way back then. In retrospect, it damaged her for the rest of her life.

Katie was an unplanned pregnancy.

I found out a month after I graduated from high school. I was mortified. I told my parents and said I would have to give the baby up. I could not possibly make a good life for a child when I was still a child myself. They would not hear of it and insisted my then-boyfriend marry me. No matter how much I cried and begged and said I did not want to get married or have a baby, my parents insisted.

THEY wanted a baby. My mom had wanted “one more baby” and had been unable to get pregnant again.

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Klara Jane Holloway
Klara Jane Holloway

Written by Klara Jane Holloway

I write about my experiences in life. Some mundane, some sad, some funny, and hopefully none boring!

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