yvonne bravo
yvonne bravo is a writer that joined LitList on November 17, 2010.
My name is Yvonne Bravo ,and I am 28 years old.
As far as I could remember, my biggest love in life has always been to read and write. I can still remember being only five years old and reading the first book I fell in love with. Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak gave me the freedom of imagination, and at the age of nine, I was introduced to the emotion behind poetry by Edgar Allen Poe. My mother always made sure we had loads of books to read. In her eyes it was very important to be surrounded by culture, maybe because she grew up with in a dysfunctional, abusive family with no means of education. Throughout high school, my plans were to take off to New York University to study and have my poetry published. It’s funny how we can have all these plans and dreams and how quickly things can completely go another direction.
Instead of going to New York City after graduation, I went straight to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Tx. I was diagnosed with Leukemia due to my addiction to inhalants. While the rest of my friends went off to college, I stayed behind receiving chemotherapy for about a year. Yes, I was cured with in the year, but I didn’t know how to get back on track. My depression got so great that I turned to drugs and alcohol to escape. For the next six years of my life, I was not only off and on the streets living as a junkie, but also, in and out of the mental institute for suicide, violence, and abusing those around me.
It has been three years and six months since I have touched any alcohol or drugs. Little by little, I have been trying to get my life back together and make up for those years that I lost hating myself and life. While going to a support group for other addicts, I was lucky to met and fall in love with a wonderful man who is now my fiancé. No one would have expected us two to fall in love because of our 24 year age difference. I am in love with a 52 year old man who has been sober for eleven years. We both decided to move to San Antonio, Texas where I can go to college and finish my bachelors in Early Childhood Education. Getting my poetry and other writings published is still a big part of my goals and dreams. To be able to write about my experience with cancer, alcoholism, drug addiction and how my life back on track will be my way giving back because I am sure others could relate. If I got the chance to write, I would write about my hard times, my life now, poetry , short stories, and others thoughts that float around in my mind. But I could also do any kind of research and /or analysis.
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