![]() She would beat us for no reason like Beat us to the point our butts stung so bad. The foster mom was so freakin mean to me and my brother. That is also the home where I learnt to hide my truth to cope with life. It was the home where the little girl me would get lost and buried deep. That is the home that would forever change me as lil person and my outlook on life. So the next home we ended up at was with this mean ol’ black woman (I can say that because that’s how me and my brother remember her as). My brother was four years old and I was five years. So yeah when the social worker came and removed us from that home and told us we were going to another home we didn’t quite understand because again we were little. So some folx may know being foster care you are given a social worker who comes checks on you and what not well my brother and I had a cool worker when we first got into foster care. I remember the foster mom being really nice to me and remember her getting me these really cute pink shoes. The first home was nice from what I can remember. We stayed in two like regular foster homes that were houses. ![]() My brother and I ended up in foster care in 1988. It is forever be embedded in my heart, mind, and soul. So that’s when she made that call, that would forever change my brother, my mom, my life. Times began to get rough for us and that’s when my mom realized that she couldn’t keep us around so she began asking family for help her and take my brother and I. So we moved from Rhode Island to get as far away as possible from my dad, we ended up in Arizona for a bit and then ended back in my mom’s hometown of Long Beach, California. Fast forward to my mom packing some of our belongings and family which consists of My sister who is five years older than me, me I’m the middle child, and my brother we are nine months apart (we are Irish twins). I believe it’s because of her putting hot sauce on my thumbs. I also was a thumb sucker when I was younger so my mom tried everything to make me stop but nothing worked and to this day I love hot sauce. Family would laugh and ask what I was singing but I didn’t even know. I remember very little about Rhode Island and what I do remember was that there was snow in the winter, I remember riding my big wheel, going around pinching people, and speaking/ singing in some other language or something. So when he was discharged from the Army we came to America and settled in Providence, Rhode Island. She also has told me that she would give me carrot juice to help with our eyesight and our skin glow. She taught me how to say “I love you” in German “ich liebe dich”. I wish I could remember Germany but I don’t great that my mom remembers and shared some things with me. So back to my journey so as I was saying the day I was born back in the 80s, I was also born overseas. I was born prematurely and that should say something because she was told that she would never have children because she has this rare thing where her insides are flipped. I came out advocating for life (my mom told me I came out fighting just to be here). Well, honestly I can say my journey began the day I was born back in the 1980s in the month of June and the day was the 16th in Frankfurt, Germany. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far. Today we’d like to introduce you to Yunique Essence.
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