A Teenager's Memoir: Surviving Parental Abandonment In The Revolutionary 70s

It is very difficult being a teenager. You're in between childhood and adulthood. My teenage years were challenging. I was very attached to my father who abandoned our family when I was thirteen leaving us impoverished. After we lost our house, my mother, brother and I moved to another neighborhood. In those days we didn't have cell phones and social media so I lost touch with all my friends, which was very traumatizing.

In our new life without my father I dealt with bullying, poverty, pa…