"It Couldn't happen to me -by Beth Johnson" P.48~59

Joanna, 22 years old, is a Puerto Rican girl who moved in the U.S when she was 7 years old. Her home was happy and normal. However, when she was in high school, she had become bad student. And around the same time, she had met her first boyfriend. She was 15; he was 17 years old. Soon after they began dating, they began having sex. However, they didn't use burth control or something because nobody ever talked to her about sex, birth control, so she didn't care about pregnancy, people who was around her was just had taught about what whould happen when she got her first period. She didn't have any close friends who fill in the gaps for her.
After that, she had got a ney boy friend; he was 20 years old. He was special for her because he was handsome, had a car, had a job, and attending a college. Unfortunately, being involved with boyfriend made her even less interested in school, so she told her mother she wanted to quit school because she wanted to be lazy and hang out with her boyfriend. Meanwhile, boyfriend had begun making extra money by selling drugs. She didn't like that, but her boyfriend never aggressive, and abusive to her, exactly good boy, so she ignored his activities as much as she could. Then, when she just turned 18 years old, her periods had stopped. her boyfriend said "Don't worry.",but she told her mother about this and checked together. Yes, she got pregnant. However, she couldn't tell to her father because her father was strict person. Really later, finally, she wrote him a letter. her father called her and cried, "Why didn't you tell me?"
Joanna got her first taste of what it meant to be a single mother thenight after her daughter, Kiara, was born. After that, her boyfriend said he stopped selling drag because she got pregnant. Then She and her boyfriend had moved new apartment, but boyfriend hadn't changed - he was still selling drags and using himself. She was really sad, but she decided that she kicked him out from their apartment. After 3 months later, he was arrested for drug dealing. She was sad because even he was doing bad things, she still loved him. However, she decided that she concentrate on doing positive things for her daughter and she. She learned how to take care about child, meanwhile she studied and took GED test again and again even she had failed many time.


When I was reading this, I thought she must be really sad because she had to realized many things about around her. her boyfriend had been to jail, and she had to raised her daughter alone even she loved him, and I think she regretted that she ignored his activities. Drug destroy everything and makes sad around our relationship all the more if you have. I think in case of Joanna, little bit different case as Rachel, but both of their story is sad.
So far, I have found some interesting vocabularies, and this story also getting interesting. I'll keep reading this.