Christina

It was like the only time where I felt powerful.

I wanted to get out of that circle of welfare and illness and living from paycheck to paycheck and just feeling, just being poor.

It sucked.

She said, you have to get your grades up.

You have to work harder at school.

And so in order for me to be able to play basketball the following year, which would have been 11th grade, I had to have an average of a B in every class.

But I was really bad at math and chemistry, and I didn't make it.

I wasn't allowed to play basketball.

She took something from me that I've not been able to get back.

Yeah, and I don't even know.

When I say that out loud, it sounds ridiculous.

But it feels like that passion for something, it dashed this huge dream that I had for my life.

She's going to be 95 in July.

The thought of talking to her about it petrifies me a little bit.

Like, there's still a part of me that is scared of her, which is ridiculous.

I think, yeah, I think I want to know...

Like, why she made my life so difficult.

If it was just to break me down.

If she had some kind of thing against me.

I guess I want to just hear her say that she just genuinely wanted me to have better grades.