Growing up, my family and I moved seven times while I was between the ages of 8 and 11 before permanently settling in Florida. The first 8 years of my life were spent in Virginia in what seemed like a fairytale. But that all changed when my family decided to relocate to Texas, where we spent 10 months and every penny my parents had, just trying to get by. Eventually, we uprooted again and moved across the country to Florida, where we finally put ...