My Own Personal Monster

My story has never been my own, it always belonged to somebody else, another person playing front and center.

Me- Always the passer-by.

Not many people know my story.

Most have never asked.

I mean why should they? I am just the beggar on the street.

I'm the skinny dirty girl, way too skinny.

'She must be a drug addict', most people say, 'a whore'.

How many of them actually considered the truth, I was hungry.

How ...