One Percent of You

Author: Michelle Gross Listening Length: 9h 22m

Make no mistakes about it. I know what I look like to others. Young, government-aided, pregnant mom. They see Lucy on my hip, and they see a mistake. I mean, why else would someone have a child so young, right? They couldn’t be more wrong. I’m too busy most days between parenting, work, and finishing up my last year ...

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I was so sick to my stomach. It was like battery acid churned through it. This was worse than the first day of a new job. This was worse than giving birth.

Lucy was too young to leave me!

Lucy’s first day of Alabama Head Start, the government run preschool program for low-income families, made me so nervous I nearly vomited. She, on the other hand, was excited as we walked toward the entrance. She had a bounce to her step as she held my hand.

Prologue 13:48
Chapter One 14:45
Chapter Two 11:13
Chapter Three 07:42
Chapter Four 10:09
Chapter Five 12:24
Chapter Six 06:46
Chapter Seven 12:16
Chapter Eight 05:16
Chapter Nine 02:00
Chapter Ten 24:53
Chapter Eleven 16:25
Chapter Twelve 23:54
Chapter Thirteen 06:44
Chapter Fourteen 11:21
Chapter Fifteen 09:34
Chapter Sixteen 02:25
Chapter Seventeen 10:06
Chapter Eighteen 04:49
Chapter Nineteen 16:24
Chapter Twenty 12:50
Chapter Twenty-One 08:32
Chapter Twenty-Two 06:03
Chapter Twenty-Three 28:38
Chapter Twenty-Four 13:52
Chapter Twenty-Five 13:04
Chapter Twenty-Six 27:36
Chapter Twenty-Seven 10:46
Chapter Twenty-Eight 04:20
Chapter Twenty-Nine 30:08
Chapter Thirty 28:36
Chapter Thirty-One 09:39
Chapter Thirty-Two 16:50
Chapter Thirty-Three 07:30
Chapter Thirty-Four 23:13
Chapter Thirty-Five 02:34
Chapter Thirty-Six 11:56
Chapter Thirty-Seven 05:10
Chapter Thirty-Eight 10:32
Chapter Thirty-Nine 13:28
Chapter Forty 08:57
Chapter Forty-One 26:46
Chapter Forty-Two 08:32
Epilogue 09:19

One Percent of You

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