I Can’t Get No Satisfaction
By J.D. Walker
I’m discontented with my life. Perhaps that’s not unusual in our modern world of never-ending bills, grumpy cat memes, and one-night stands, but it seems especially difficult for me to find joy in anything right now. Or maybe ever.
I want to change that. Heaven knew I deserved it, what with the s**t I’d gone through over the years. But how? I was stuck in a rut.
Perhaps if I explained…
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I grew up in a single-parent household with three older brothers and one middle sister. I was the youngest. That meant I got hand-me-downs and had to fight for scraps. Dad did his best to care for us, but half the time he was stoned out of his mind when he wasn’t working nights at the car assembly plant in our fabulous town. Mom was a faint memory of l
