I think the knife incident

is the reason she was diagnosed with mental illness. That was the onset. coulda been the reason why I hated school from that point on

Now as I look back at this

instead of her going to jail and being charged criminally not having proper access to services back then. I don't know what Mother did if anything prior to the knife incident although I heard of another incident which caused her to leave Detroit and come here.

I remember being called

out of class and sitting in the back seat a car by St. Luke A.M.E. Zion Church we sat I believe it was me Albert and Yvette we waited in the car while Mother was being arrested

Next memory being

in school at Sheldon someone picking on Albert and Marjorie going up to the school to confront the principal with a knife because he failed to stop her son for being bullied

The death of that man

left Mother with 9 children to raise with no male to help

Next kinda of memory is sad

of the person whom I was told was my dad passed away. I was young before I was in school

I was a baby

I've never seen any pictures of myself as a baby but if my grandsons are any indication I probably was a cute baby I remember people looking and responding how people normally respond when they see babies

My earliest memory

and I have had this memory all my life of being a baby wrapped in a blanket in some ones arms traveling on what I always thought was a air plane but was later told was a train

The experts say that children

have no memory of early age I beg to differ

Setting my anger aside

humbled by those school records

Mother

is the reason I graduated she didn't say much when she was on those meds so when she asked me to stop fighting and graduate she knew I didn't like school and said what she didn't like to do I did what I could from that moment to get enough credits to graduate