Reginald

Okay.

Which had the benefit of like the nation's capital and you could see everything.

And my mom had a great government job, but it also had the poverty in a sense of being a black belt and being like right outside of the center of everything, but literally right outside of the center of it.

I was the first person in my family to go to college and the first person to graduate from prison.

Yeah.

And that's not supposed to be a potential reality of somebody

growing up in the 80s and the 90s.

That's not supposed to be the landscape of what it means to, you know,

be an American citizen, but it literally was my perspective.

I'm going to go ahead and credit my mom.

And I'm going to credit my mom for two reasons.

First, you know, on the front end, she forgave me.

And she didn't make me beat myself up.

She just accepted that I was better than that.

And she had to accept it on faith.

You know, she had to really believe that I was better than the crime that I committed and convey that to me in such a way that I could believe that I was better.

And so I credit my mom.

And then she put money behind her belief.

I took a paralegal course in prison.

She paid for it.