Text by Snow Baby, Copyright 2022
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The Past
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I was born at Holy Redeemer Hospital in Meadowbrook, Pa. at 7:00AM on Friday, September 11th, 1998 to two drug addicted parents. My mom and dad got high off of anything they could touch. I have eight siblings. We all were separated, wound up in foster care and group homes during our childhood and teenage years. I dropped out of Lincoln High school when I was 16 to work full time and eventually got my GED. I also learned how to drive, got a license and saved up enough money to purchase my first car despite the fact that the group homes and foster care were a continuing nightmare while I was constantly being moved to a different home or mental hospital.
I was sexually abused my whole life physically and verbally by my dad and step dad and my step brother. My biological parents were never married. My father was with another deranged woman and my mother was with a terrible man, so all parents including step parents were also getting high. I was put into foster care when i was about 6. While I was there, I was taken to a hospital for an infection. The next thing you know cops were at my house and I was removed from the home and foster care started up again, for years until I turned 18.
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Needless to say, the foster homes I was assigned to were not safe. One of the foster parents ended up being a child molester and went to jail for a long time. Officials kept removing me from several homes because of my behavior. Obviously I was acting out of the fear of repeatedly being raped. I was also adopted 2 times and put back into foster care and placed in a mental hospital in between those years at around 11 years old where they had me on different medications.
During those horrible childhood and teenage years, i was running away from homes and placements. At some point I got involved with an older man who set me up for a robbery/assault that I was arrested for and sent to jail for 23 months. I was outside on my own trying to survive and trusted the wrong people to survive with. I was released from prison at 21 years of age with a felony conviction, which makes it difficult to find a regular job. Before I got arrested I was able to work several jobs. Now it’s not possible.
I turned to strip clubs to make a living and got my apartment in 3 months after I started learning the craft of pole dancing. Cheerleaders is the first real club I worked at with a degree of pride and dignity. Any club before Cheerleaders was an after hour 12-5 type of place, but not a gentlemen’s club.
I always seem to make it through anything i’ve had to face. Now I’m working on a new business plan I want to develop for a successful future.
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About The Author: Snow Baby is currently a full time exotic dancer at Cheerleader’s Gentlemen’s Club in Philadelphia. This is her first contribution to Tony Ward Studio.