A Twisted True Story — Unbreakable Spirit

Michelle Dione
4 min readFeb 28, 2020
My mom on her wedding day to her second husband, my evil abusive step father. I didn’t know it at the time but she later told me she was already pregnant in this picture to my younger brother.

When I was growing up my mom wanted to kill my spirit. She did not want me to leave her side, she wanted me to stay with her for life and take care of her. Either that or marry a rich man who would take care of us both. She made me clean the house ever since I was a child and take care of my little brother. My education was not important. My dreams were not important. My imagination needed to be squashed. My…

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Michelle Dione

Journalist, Writer, Photog, Video. Oakland Based. Most known for filming viral “BBQ Becky” video, best known for exposing right-wing fascism. Also, I’m a witch.