Maddy

And once I was born, they got an apartment because my grandmother, my mom's mom, would always help out where she can because my mom's family was a lot more, a little more structured.

So they would like try to give her money and try to do that.

But my mom was not financially stable.

She would, like I said, thinking about what's going to make her feel good.

She was smoking weed all the time.

She was doing whatever she could just to kind of have fun, but also take care of us as well.

So they get pregnant with me and I don't really remember much because my dad went to prison when I was six.

So like the only vivid memories I have of him at that age were like him sitting out front smoking a cigarette, all of us in the house together.

And there were some weird times like...

I would see him and my sister go into the other room or me and my brother are hanging out by ourselves way longer.

But it's like kind of like screenshots because I was so young.

Right.

So there was one memory that I had that I've always, like, grew up.

I didn't really understand it because I was so young.

So he took us to a park, and my mom was always working.

This is something that's really frustrating, and I feel for my mom because she was genuinely just, like, she didn't set herself up.

So she was just working these random jobs, and so she was never home.

So he was in charge of taking care of all of us.

So he took us to the park one day and I saw my brother.

They like went off into this trail and my brother grabs me and he's like, hey, Maddie, like, let's go.