A Word From Ken Dietz

     So here I am 20 years old with a knocked up 18 year old girlfriend. My mom wouldnt let me stay in her house once she found out Cindy was pregnant, so off we went to her parents house. They werent so thrilled.

     My mom has never been very fond of me being her child. She always did prefer my older brothers. Both of them went thru school and didnt drink and smoke, like me. By the time I was in the 11th grade I was a full blown alcoholic. I was practically failing school, and my hypocritical mother was bugging me to do something with my life; while she drank and smoked a cigarette right in front of me. I dropped outta school at the beginning of my senior year and became the worst person I have ever known. All I did was work and stay up all night drinking, only to sleep til noon and do it all over again the next day. I got a job at a grocery store where the manager would buy me drinks, but the money would come out of my paycheck. My idea was to steal the money, but of course that would get me fired and in jail; so I found another way. I decided to steal the money thru change at the register. It was easier to do it to moms with kids and other distractions, but I couldnt do it on the old men who actually count their change.
     So now here I am, a full blown alcoholic and have a child on the way in a few months. Little did I know that Vera would change my life around. Once she was born I had to watch her while Cindy went off to dance as a striper at the near by bar. I remember being so drunk I had forgot to feed Vera for a few hours, so I walked around drunkenly wondering why she stopped crying. I was so upset I started crying with her til Cindy came home late that night. " Geez Ken, your more of a baby that Vera!!" she said. Right then I changed my game.
    The next night I was in a AA meeting getting help and within a week I had enrolled in the near by community college. I was going to become an accountant. Soon Cindy left me and Vera and went to live in Las Vegas with some dentist or something. She sends Vera a card with $50 on her birthday and has no other contact. What a mother. Now I'm scared Vera is going to inherit my drinking and her mothers slutty abilities. I would like her to have a better future than what I did and go somewhere in life. She may think I'm being and ass but all in all I'm protecting her way more than she knows.