Welcome to the Saving Nikki website.   I’m excited to bring Nikki to life because she has an important story to be told.

Let me tell you a little about what it was like for a young girl growing up in the 1960’s.    It wasn’t unusual  to get married right out of high school.  Couples didn’t just live together – they committed to one another and got married.   Occasionally, a girl got pregnant out of wedlock, and she generally had two choices.  She could marry the young man in a hurry so people wouldn’t know the truth, or she would go live somewhere else to have her baby and then put it up for adoption.   Abortion was illegal and dangerous.    It wasn’t like today where the world would have you believe that it’s okay to have sex before marriage, or okay to live together without marriage. 

I love Nikki because in one person, she represents a collection of people that I know and love.  She didn’t have much direction growing up, but when faced with giving up or surviving, she chose to survive.   She might have been perceived as weak in the beginning, but hers is a story of strength.

If you’re a young adult, I hope  Nikki will help you see how important it is to make the proper choices.  Some choices you make will affect you for the rest of your lives.  Most likely, they will affect not only you, but those you love. Sometimes your choices affect people you don’t even know.

If you’re an adult, you may recognize someone you know in this story.  You may even recognize a bit of yourself.   If so, I hope that Nikki’s story of strength and courage will help you either appreciate your own strength or help you to find it. 

I hope you come to love Nikki as much as I do.    

Joyce Moseley Pierce

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Visit Nikki’s sister site, WhyGoodChoices, and learn more about how important it is to make good choices.