Raised By Pride Audio
I Was Raised By Pride
Aug 17, 20265 minS0
<p>From the outside, my life looks patriotic, stable, traditional. Retired Coast Guard Master Chief. Federal economist. Married 33 years, three grown kids, two grandsons. But behind the résumé is a story I never told publicly — until now.</p><p>For the first seven years of my life, "normal" looked like a standard American family, and behind closed doors it was fear and harm. At seven, my mother pulled me out of that life under police escort, and we moved in with a woman named Sue. For the next six years I was raised by two women, in a home full...
