I want to tell about my sister and how important she is to us. When she was 15 years old, she got married. She had only been married for one year when we lost our parents. She took my two brothers with her and she didn’t have any experience with kids, but she cared for us with love. It was difficult for her to give us food and education. But she was a nice mother and I know how special she was for us. She was so young and had a lot of problems in the beginning, but she took care of us anyway.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Edirene Lemes is from Brazil.  "I've lived here for three and a half years.  I have my own housecleaning business.  I'm studying English so that I can speak and write more comfortably." She is an intermediate ESOL student at the Framingham Adult ESL Program.