Banks Dynasty – Day 72

I wake up in the middle of the night…right before Peri’s birthday because I have a lot of heavy things on my mind. I said goodbye to mama today…and it was hard, but I got through it just as I’ve done with everything else in my life.

While it’s true that my story started in a group home located in the middle of the hard streets of Mirage Park in Del Sol Valley…it for damn sure isn’t going to end there. I came from dust, dirt, and ashes, but rose up like a phoenix!  I may not have accomplished all of my goals…I mean…I don’t live in the Pinnacles on the hills of Del Sol Valley. But I became a wife, a mother, a sister, and a good friend.

I once said that mama was a wanderer…and she was, but life eventually led her right back to me and her family. She wasn’t there for the middle part of my life, but she was here in the end…that’s what matters.

I realize that we can set as many goals and aspirations for ourselves as our hearts can hold…but the real goal will always be happiness and I’ve found that. I’ve found it…and I’m satisfied.

~Alida

(End of Generation 1 – read from the beginning)

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