*Caterina*

I walked up our front steps, wondering if I would even manage to make it through the front door or if I would just collapse on the porch swing. It wasn’t even lunchtime yet, but I felt like I could damn near fall asleep for the night.

‘You want to be in school, you want to be in school…’ I had repeated to myself thousands of times as I sat through my lectures and diligently took notes.

Although I knew that getting my education was the ...