00:00So English people would always come to our farm.
00:02And one morning I was picking strawberries.
00:05I'll call him Kevin because that's the name of him in my book.
00:08He came when I was picking strawberries by myself.
00:11And that morning when he was in the strawberry patch with me,
00:14I was like, oh, maybe I could run away and live with him.
00:17I didn't really know anything about this man
00:19except him and his business partner were truck drivers.
00:22They delivered logs to my dad's farm.
00:24Kevin comes with his truck and there was a lady in the truck.
00:26I didn't know he was married,
00:28but I didn't leave to be with him.
00:30I just wanted to not be Amish.
00:32I get out of my creaky, squeaky bed
00:34and I crawled on my hands and knees to the hallway
00:36and I jumped to the ground
00:38and I took off running into the dark.
00:39And that was 2.30 in the morning.
00:42Finally, they came to pick me up
00:44and I was like, wow, I'm finally free.
00:46They took me to their house.
00:47They said that they would support me financially
00:50until I was 18 as long as I helped take care of his mom.
00:54And I was like, okay.
00:55So it wasn't very fun when I first left.
00:58And in January before, when I was still 17,
01:01I had gone to Ohio with my cousins
01:04and I met a guy there and we started dating.
01:07After a year and a half of dating him,
01:09he broke up with me and I was devastated.
01:11I was so heartbroken.
01:14And eventually I started working at IBM
01:17and I made more than $9 an hour there,
01:20but it was still, it was very little money.
01:23And my rent was $420
01:24and I often worried about how I would pay my rent.
01:27I'll see you next time.
