Blog Assignment #7: "Author's Note" on Your Personal Memoir

“That’s when she told me the entire story.  Keisha was in foster care since she was born. Her mother was a crack addict and was doing drugs during her pregnancy. Nobody knows were she is or her condition. Keisha was born in Marcy housing park in Brooklyn. Left there alone then found by a cop who took her to the hospital. Her father was in jail, she did not tell me of what he was convicted for. All I know is that it most of been something serious because until now he has not gotten out. Also it is evident that his incarceration is drug related. Her family members did not want her. After she told me this all I felt was sadness, disappointment, but I wasn't mad at Keisha.”
This piece is about my best friend. I thought I knew everything about her, and in high school I found out she was in foster care. She was my inspiration for this piece, the idea came to me when I was eating lunch with her. She told me that when she turns twenty-one if she does not have a job and a steady place to live, the foster care agency would place her in a shelter. I turned this assignment in to late to be able to revise it for my final portfolio.  However, if I was able to revise it the first thing I would change is the title.  The writing of this assignment did not come easy to me. I was having trouble with being pleased with my work, before I gave it in to my professor I most had written it over about 4 times. As soon as I mentioned her being located in a mental institution Wurtzel Prozac Nation popped in my head. I think I was thinking about because I can just imagine the depression she most of had being in an institution with a bunch of stranger.