5/18/2023 0 Comments The Cartel by Ashley Antoinette![]() ![]() So we did that and we stayed in the house for about two weeks, night and day. I proposed that we join the manuscripts together. I started a book and he started his own book, and when he would leave the house I would cheat and go read what he was writing to make sure mine was better… What I was reading was amazing, it was really good. Once he dared me to do that, it kind of snapped me out of the depressive funk that I was in. ![]() So, there was just a shared love for words and books and literature. And I’m super competitive and we used to read books together, that’s actually one of the first dates that he had taken me on. During my recovery, my boyfriend at the time, he dared me to write a book. The healing process for that, I was really young, not even just physically but emotionally. But I ended up having an ectopic pregnancy and I was rushed into surgery. I wasn’t supposed to be where I am today. And I ended up getting pregnant really, really early so I was like on a path to basically fulfill a statistic. We had this tiny one bedroom apartment – it felt like a mansion back then but it was literally probably about 500 square feet. ![]() He’s my husband now, but he was my boyfriend then and he moved me out of my house really early. I’m from Flint, Michigan and I met this boy that I fell in love with super early. ![]() Ashley: “I started writing when I was 16 years old. ![]()
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