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I've been living in the same place for all my life. Except for the brief move my family and I took when I was ten only to be taken back to my hometown by my stepfather who threatened to charge my mother with kidnapping if she didn't return my younger, half-sister to him. What nerve of him!! To this day I wish he would have just left us alone. What would he have been able to do with a 4 year old girl? Nothing because he did nothing when we all lived together. Alas, he came in his van and picked us all up. Now, granted we were on our last leg and living from day to day hoping we wouldn't be evicted from our small apartment in Maryland but we were for the maost part, happy with each other. My grandmother (who was strangely supportive of a man she swore to hating) came along for the ride. I guess as a tactic to get me to want to come home as well. I stuck by my mother and was unwaivered in my loyalty to her