Coal

COAL Life as President of a new chapter was harder and lonelier than I’d expected, even with my family and brothers surrounding me. A call from a potential supplier derailed my carefully cultivated life in a way that I never expected. I went from a single man to married and a father in the blink of an eye. It was a responsibility I’d not expected, but not one I regretted. THEA Our life was hard. It’s not like I chose it; it was the life I’d been born into. When a conversation was overheard that my father was planning on selling my younger sister to broker a deal, my siblings and I knew we had run out of time. He’d already taken my daughter’s father. He wasn’t taking my sister. Coal was not what I expected. When he’d suggested we’d get married, I’d been shocked. He promised I wouldn’t regret it, so I agreed. To protect my daughter and siblings, I would agree to just about anything. Time would tell if he would be true to his word.

COAL Life as President of a new chapter was harder and lonelier than I’d expected, even with my family and brothers surrounding me. A call from a potential supplier derailed my carefully cultivated life in a way that I never expected. I went from a single man to married and a father in the blink of an eye. It was a responsibility I’d not expected, but not one I regretted. THEA Our life was hard. It’s not like I chose it; it was the life I’d been born into. When a conversation was overheard that my father was planning on selling my younger sister to broker a deal, my siblings and I knew we had run out of time. He’d already taken my daughter’s father. He wasn’t taking my sister. Coal was not what I expected. When he’d suggested we’d get married, I’d been shocked. He promised I wouldn’t regret it, so I agreed. To protect my daughter and siblings, I would agree to just about anything. Time would tell if he would be true to his word.