I would say that my most favorite thing about the library are the people here
they believed in me and so it made me start believing in me
I just love Laurie with the computer she she could sense that I was scared I
would I couldn't even stand next door I mean I just was so intimidated and she
told me well you've got to come to my classes you've got to come and see and
when I went in there she was like she made everybody feel like they were just
a little Einstein I can type 39 words a minute and I practice and I can get in
my email now my other friend here is Leslie and she started telling me about
places to go apply for work and I was like they think I can hold down a job
and then one day somebody brought it up school and they said well you're gonna
go and go to PCC aren't you I mean I looked at them what you've got to be
crazy and the next time I came in I wanted them to be proud of me and they
were and named when I started school these guys were right there and I'm
actually gonna it's my first semester now in college but I'm making really
good grades before my life was a series of picking bad people for my life and I
would start getting on my feet and I'd start doing better and boom there I was
in a shelter again and I thought I can't live the rest of my life this way today
I got my own apartment I'm doing well I mean I'm living on nothing but that's
okay because I have more riches than everything else so I'm so much more
positive and it's right because right here I really want to say that