There are so many challenges that people face everyday. Some challenges are everyday challenges such as what they plan to wear to school, or what they want to eat for dinner. There are also the kinds of challenges that are not part of the everyday life style. There are challenges such as death, divorces, moving, and money. There is one challenge that I have to overcome in my life that I am still working on to this day. My parent's divorce is the one struggle that I am trying to overcome.
             Back in September, my father left my mom. He didn't just leave my mom though; he left me and my siblings as well. We knew something was wrong back in April when he started to change. Everything changed about him, including his perspectives, attitude towards his family, and his behavior towards his friends. My father had always been easy going and very fun to be around. He soon became rude, argumentive, and grumpy. We did not know what was going on, so my mom thought that a doctor would be able to help him. My father refused to go to any appointments that my mother had made for him. We all began to thing that maybe it was just a mid-life crisis. Little did we know it was much more then that.
             On September 9, 2004, my dad walked out the door and never came back. My family was a mess. We didn't hear from him to know that he was okay or even still alive. My mom went to go walk the dog, and the trunk to my car was cracked open. She opened the trunk to find letters that my dad received from an inmate at a women's facility in Clinton, NJ. Why were they in the trunk of my car? Why did he bring me into it? She opened them and began to read. She called my Dad's cell phone and he answered. Something in his voice told my mom that he knew that she found them. He told my mom that he wouldn't be back and that he found new love.
             My mother came to pick me up from work that day, and I could tell something was wrong. I asked her,
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