Moral “No! Please don’t burn that!” I screamed while my father threw my grandmother’s handmade quilt into a flaming barrel behind our house.
From Ashes to Strength: Bethany’s Story At seventeen, Bethany watched her abusive father burn everything she loved — including her grandmother’s handmade quilt — after discovering her secret college acceptance letter. With only a small envelope of cash and her birth certificate from her mother, she escaped into the freezing Ohio night with nothing but…