Hailey Langley '21 Recruiting Profile

Growing up was a little rough when I was younger. Kids bullying me because I did not have what they had. I did not have a mom. I did not have a dad. When I was born my dad, whoever he is, did not even come to my birth. I have two sisters that are four and three years older than me. People think that we have the same father but I look absolutely nothing like him. My mom was definitely no peach either though. She did drugs while pregnant with me that the doctors said I was lucky that I did not come out deformed or anything. I was born dirty and stayed dirty for six months while my mother breast fed me. When the social workers said she could not be around me or living in the same house is when I started to have withdrawals. My grandma said that I just screamed and screamed for hours on end and the only time I did not scream was when I was asleep. My mother was in and out a lot when I was growing up. I always kind of felt like she abandoned me. She was never clean and when she was not coming around was because she was in jail again. She was in and out of jail for a lot of my childhood. My grandparents raised me. They bought me everything I own. They pay for my soccer. They tried their best to give me everything all the other kids had so I did not feel left out. People used to make fun of me but now it does not even phase me. I would want no one else to raise me but them. Even though I wished they would have adopted me they did it for the right reasons. I just do not like having to tell people that I am an orphan or a ward of the state. I do not like to write on documents that I am a ward of the state or an orphan. It is all worth it though because I have the best parents ever even though growing up I was always terrified that they were going to pass and I was always embarrassed of them because they weren't like the other parents. Now I am grateful and would not want any other. They are amazing and even gonna try to help put me through college. My grandpa said he was gonna work until I graduated highschool so we had the money for things I needed. He is now 74 and still going. They are my greatest supporters.They have really pushed me to be the first of my mother and siblings to go to and graduate college. They always wanted me to turn out different from them. They said they want me to have a life that makes me happy and does not revolve around drugs. They always try to keep me on the right path and going to college and making a life for myself is the way I want to go.