Han Nolan

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he had decided to join in, when this happened she found how much joy it had brought her and also everyone around her noticed how beautiful her voice was. After this incident she always was determined to become one of the ladies.

A couple was starting to come see Harmon and take him away for a few hours at a time and Janie was starting to get very jealous because she now had to share Harmon and she was never able to go with. Harmon came home after spending the weekend at the couple’s house and had told Janie how he was going to be adopted by this couple and was going to be a family with them now. Janie was not to happy with this idea it made her feel like she was loosing something. When the day came for him to come Janie was not letting Harmon go she was hanging onto him very tightly but she did and when she did Harmon gave her something to remember him by, he had given her one of the ladies.
As time went on she had never seen Harmon again and had only heard from him once in a letter.

Janie’s mother would come and visit her every once in a while and some times her mother was dressed like a slut and other times she looked more comfortable. Janie noticed when her mother would come dressed like a slut her mom was going out to do something that something Janie did not know. One day as Janie was getting off the school bus she saw her mother at the corner waiting for her as Janie got off the bus her mother snagged her up and put her in the car. Janie’s mother was, what she found out to be as she got older, trading her for heroin to a couple that had lost their daughter from an illness. As this happened Janie got to name her self and she named herself after her case worker’s daughter, whom had also died, Leshaya, she did not only want this name because of who’s name it was also because it was a black girl’s name and she always wanted to be black she taught her self to talk slang so she sounded more black and also...