5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm born and raised in South East D.C. |
0:05.8 | Okay. You know, I grew up, two-parent household. My mother was, she was from D.C., my father also from D.C. |
0:15.0 | And I recently lost my mother last year, at the end of 2019. |
0:21.6 | Beautiful woman, precious soul. |
0:23.6 | She was a homemaker, you know, and also she worked a 9 to 5 for 30, |
0:30.6 | 35 years, I believe. |
0:32.6 | And she had recently retired, and shortly after her retirement is when she passed away. |
0:38.7 | But her and my father had a beautiful relationship. |
0:42.7 | I got to see that as I was growing up. |
0:44.9 | You know, I was privileged to attend Muslim private schools all of my life. |
0:50.5 | Okay. |
0:51.3 | You know, I went from the, what they called pre-K or kindergarten, pre-K, |
0:56.1 | kindergarten all the way until I graduated high school. I got married when I was 17. Okay. |
1:03.6 | Here in Atlanta, Georgia, D.C. was real rough, you know, and, you know, those are circumstances, you know, people shouldn't just live in. |
1:13.5 | So my father, you know, he sent me and my brother to Atlanta when we were, when I was 13, |
1:20.3 | and my brother was 14 or 15. |
1:21.9 | Okay. |
1:22.5 | So we stayed in about five, well, I stayed in about seven different homes within five years. |
1:29.1 | And, you know, that caused me to mature a lot quicker than others. |
1:33.7 | So, you know, when I was about 17, you know, I made the decision to get married. |
1:38.7 | I tried to get married at 16. |
1:40.0 | Okay. |
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