On January 5, 2014, Crow boarded an
airplane and flew from Kansas City, Missouri to Ontario, California, bringing
with her only a backpack and two large duffel bags. The day before, after
cutting herself, she swore she would no longer self-harm. At the airport, she
was greeted by her family, whom she hadn’t seen in over a year. Soon after
settling down into the small city of Redlands, she was enrolled in a nearby
high school. She knew nobody and would even have a nervous embarrassment or
anxiety about approaching other students when needing help finding a teacher.
When group assignments came about in class, like usual, she worked alone.
Unlike at her former high school, Olathe South, she rarely raised her hand to
answer questions. She found people to cling to and make friends with very
shortly, but she rarely ventured out of this group, even after being settled in
for a long time. Being in this new school confused her some. Normally, she was
friendly and kind, but avoided people a little bit; in her new habitat, she
avoided people even more. For a while, she kept to herself the struggles she
had to stay clean, the physical pain she experienced whenever she fought the
urge to cut. Eventually, she found someone to confide in, but not even he knew
every detail. She always seemed to have a habit of keeping to herself.
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