Ari

Cause like I said, my mother was in jail.

So for the first four years of my life, it was jumping different places.

Excuse me.

And she eventually decided to take custody when my father was incarcerated.

And so by then she was, like I said, pregnant with my youngest sister and was dating a dude that we'll get into once we get into that.

But she was dating probably the most impactful man of my childhood, I guess you could say.

Not in a positive way.

Yeah.

Yeah, so when I first got there, there was intensive therapies, mental institutions, different things to try to regulate my emotions and figure out what was wrong with me.

But at the end of the day, for me, I went from trauma to a household that was built on image.

But when you peek through, she was getting beat by her husband.

I was sleeping on the floor.

There were not things that were...

They didn't coincide.

It didn't make sense.

So right around middle school, that's when her ex-husband went to jail.

And so she had my little sister and we moved in with my grandfather and he was no better, but that's not my story to tell.

My older siblings have

A lot they could say, but like I said, that's not my story to tell.

I didn't experience that from him.