Hey guys, welcome back to Kay and I Break It Down and I'm so glad you're here.

Today's episode is when you will not want to miss as we dive into more of a conversation

with DA like we had last week. It's honest, thought-provoking, and full of insight. So grab a coffee,

a water, some sort of drink, settle in, and let's get started. Um, yeah. And so I think I also had,

at that point had, because I was homeschooled my entire life. Um, so I was kept indoors. I didn't

have internet access. I was homeschooled my entire life. We I was kept indoors. I didn't have internet access. I was homeschooled

my entire life. We went to church a lot. And so I eventually decided to like just stop. I became very

quote unquote rebellious. And I didn't do my school. And I was just like, no, I'm not doing this

anymore. You can't make me. And then I said that I wanted to get my GED. And the reason why I wanted to get my GED was because I wanted to take the classes and I wanted to actually learn the things that I hadn't learned because I had spent the last four years of my high school education raising the children that were in our home. And my adoptive mother had gone back to work. She wasn't a stay-at-home mom anymore.

As soon as her youngest biological child graduated, that was it. Like, she left. That was my freshman year of high school, too. And I wasn't, and my mother would always say, if you know how to read, write, and the four basic math functions, you can teach yourself anything. And so, and I was like, well, no, because if I could teach myself high school, I wouldn't need to be in high school, you know?

Right.

But, and, and I was like, well, no, because if I could teach myself high school, I wouldn't need to be in high school, you know? Right. But, and, and then at that point, she was asking me to, like, homeschool my little sister and, like, kindergarten. Um, and so I had a lot of responsibilities that was just not my own schoolwork. And so I wanted to drop out and I wanted to get my GED for the purpose of like catching up.

And she started sabotaging that to you.

And so eventually I played her game. I said that I wanted to be reenrolled, that I wanted to finish high school, that I wanted to get my high school diploma.

So that went on during those couple months in the summer of 2020.

And I eventually finally got my high school diploma in August of 2020. And I agreed to go to a Christian college that nobody's ever heard of in upstate New York called Word of Life Bible Institute and that my sister went there at the time. And so we were put in quarantine when we went up there in August. And I remember, I just remember like like, how awful it was to be in quarantine with my sister. And I remember fighting with her. And my adoptive mother, she was texting. And they were very close at the time. My adoptive sister and my adoptive mother. And I remember her, like, texting my mom, like, during our fight. And I was like, really? Are you kidding me? like you're just like her little minion aren't you and she uh my adoptive mother like started like blowing up my phone

being like don't run this for your sister I will like come up there she was like that's your

sister's college and I was like I don't think you get divs on a college I don't think that's how

this works like you sent us both up here 1700 miles700 miles away. Um, and she said, she said,

um, and what really got me was, um, like, I, I will drive up from Alabama and I will

yank you out of college, um, you know, and she even said to like make her threat like more

serious or whatever. She said, if i pull you out within the first

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