My name is Jessica and I am 28. I come from a poor family where I am the only child to my paralyzed mother. It has been 15 years that I have not seen my mother walk. She barely can talk. The proper move that she can make is make her eyes wet but never says a word. My childhood had never been better. I was always jealous of what people had by their side. Seeing kids having a good time with their father used to make my heart burn. I remember my mother once told me that my father had left after my birth. He wanted a son but it was his misfortune and my bad luck that he left because I stepped as a girl. The actual reason for him choosing to leave us behind is yet untold. Is it even a valid reason to leave just because he had a baby girl? Why was I dominated since my birth? Bringing up a life as a girl where the head of the family opts to have a different world for himself and the only suffering the mother has to take; the society putting up different accusations on that poor ...