Graciela

Graciela’s POV

It all started Four years ago when mom had a heart attack and the doctors requested that she quit her job and stay home until she recovered fully. I had to drop out of college and get a job so I could take care of my sibling and pay up her hospital bills and other bills in the house.

While I was searching for a job, a friend introduced me to stripping in a club. It isn’t the kind of job that I would have loved to do, but, The bills were piling up and my mom needs to check-in at the hospital every week, I needed the money badly, so I took the job and I worked as a stripper, earning enough to pay the bills and also take care of my mom and my sisters.

A few months after I started working in the club, I got a call from the hospital, mom had been admitted into the emergency room and she is going to begin her chemotherapy. I couldn’t believe it, I thought Chemo is only for cancer patients, mom doesn’t have cancer, how could she be going for Chemotherapy, what the hell is goin