The Road Not Taken.

Leslie just graduated from high school, it's the night of her high school graduation. She isn't going out like every other graduate in her school. Three months ago her life changed after giving birth to her beautiful daughter, Anna. To celebrate graduating she and her family go to a park that they had went to since Leslie was a child.

Leslie and her family gathered around a large picnic table, filled with food and cake. When Leslie pictured her graduation when she was a child, she didn't picture Anna. She didn't think Anna was a mistake or a burden, just something she wasn't prepared for at the age of 18. She thought she would have had a life started before she had a kid.

She had an important decision to make, she either had to stay home from university after all the scholarships she recieved to watch Anna or go to university for 4 years, leave Anna with her parents and miss her growing up. She had no idea what she wanted to do, she could either get a good job and be able to support her and Anna or she could work a minimum wage job and try to have a good life.

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Leslie went to university, although she missed Anna taking her first steps, learning to talk and her first day of school. She managed to get a high paying job and buy a house in a nice neighborhood, she moved Anna and her mother in with her. Leslie made a hard and huge decision by giving up Anna while she went to get her life on track, all the while she was in college she hoped she would have a life Anna would like to have. Leslie grew up to a poor family, she never had the opportunities most kids had, and she wanted Anna to grow up differently then her mother had. Although it was a tough decision, it was the right one.