"Why Do Things Have To Be So Hard" by Lubrina Burton
-time to grow up, leave home
A native Kentuckian remembers the hard times of her Army basic training at 17, and the years before.
(This story appears in That Southern Thing, vol. 3, of the Personal Story Publishing Project, 2020.)
Lubrina Burton resides in Lexington, Kentucky and hails from rural Knox County. She credits her second-grade teacher and cousin, Ms. Thelma Buell, for first encouraging and nurturing her love of writing. Lubrina is a veteran of the U.S. Army and a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University. Currently she is enrolled in the Carnegie Center’s Author Academy in Lexington. She is working on a collection of personal essays related to her time in the military.