Christina

So I ended up moving in with this family and looking after the boys.

They paid me a little bit.

And I quit school to be a nanny.

My foster mother and I kind of butted heads a little bit, or a lot.

She was very strict.

If I was five minutes late for curfew, I would be grounded for a month.

It felt like I was always grounded and afraid all the time and kind of walking on eggshells and, yeah, just feeling always really intimidated and scared.

I was always scared.

I can't explain how much I was obsessed with basketball.

I would practice at like 6 in the morning at the school.

I would practice on weekends.

I'd watch the NBA games with Clyde the Glide and Charles Barkley.

Then my name was in the paper a few times.

I think I have some paper clippings of high scoring.

I loved, loved, loved basketball.

They would always put me inside, like I would always have to guard the post.

No, I'm only 5'6".

But I guess I kind of had this unrealistic view of myself where I thought I was taller than I was because off court I was like kind of meek and I just follow the crowd and I wouldn't like create any waves.

I didn't really have an opinion.

But on the court, I was a force to be reckoned with.