Sandra Woodruff

A look at life through my eyes Sandra Woodruff

This is a story about a young girl. She went by the name of shorty, baby girl and other names that she had accumulated while she was on the streets. She was twenty-eight years old when she started to write this book. She thought that she was invisible, that nothing could touch her but she was wrong. She has two brothers that is older than her named Scott and Curtis. She was her mamma's baby girl. She was born in Greenville, SC but raised in Anderson, SC on March 11, 1982. She had been in the system her whole teenage years. She had been in the county jail don't know how many times. She has been to prison four times. She is HIV positive and Hepatitis C. She is also a drug recovery addict. She has been positive for ten years when she started this book. She found out that she was HIV positive when she was eighteen years old. She likes to write poetry, listen to music, read books and play sports especially with her brothers. She was a tom boy. She did what her brothers did. That young girl is me.