Stephanie Danler | The Road to Stray
Good Life Project
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Stray Is About Being Raised by Two, and Being a Single Mother
Stray is about being raised by two and my mother was a, was an alcoholic and a single mother. And so my grandmother was the first person who saw beyond the trouble i was causing to see that it might be indicative of some greater sense ity that should be nurtured and not disciplined. I hadn't one teacher in high school who encouraged me to apply to the college that i ended up getting into. There was definitely a lot of kindness of strangers. But no one is telling a teen aged girl with a tongue piercing who stays out all night and goes raves that she's going to be a writer some day.
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