Status Updates From Impossibilities

“Drugs and guns were as normal in my life as cartoons are in the life of an average child. I knew how to cook crack and had witnessed this several times by age 12. I was raised in the projects by teenagers who feared nothing and only respected violence and money ninety percent of all the people I looked up to, respected, loved or knew were incarcerated.”

“This was her reality; she worked hard every day, but if she had no money left after paying her bills, she had to heat her house with boiling water.”