My casts were pretty definitive characteristic of my childhood. I refused to let them hold me back. Just kidding, there is no determination story here. Just a kid who wanted to play with her cousins.
I remember at my aunt Charlene's house, I would Climb up the steps in my casts, then slide down them like it was the funnest game in the world. My cousins would join me. as i recall the younger ones (Jarvis and his sister Jira and my cousin prentis) were exceptionally nice. The older ones however, would go down in history as evil.
Eventually though, the casts did come off, and i became a normal kid. My teeth fell out and the toothfairy left me neerly 5 bucks for them. She also gave me a tootsie roll penny bank to keep the money in. But my cousin jaira tricked me into believing her mother had given it to her. My mother found her with the penny bank, and took it. She said something along the lines of me being stupid enough to get tricked and that she had bought it for me to keep my toothfairy money.
I think that was a goodbye gift, cause for the next few months, i dont remember my mother being in my life at all.
At some point i decided that juice was the only acceptable drink, and there were always arguments with my aunt charlene who would make me drink milk. I'd make Forts out of boxes and on hot summer days i'd make tents by laying a sheet across a fan, laying shoes all around it to hold it down, and turning the fan on high. I must have been 4 years old. The boy next door, nathan, was a year older and i was lucky enough to call him my "boyfriend." and we'd play "hide n go get it" in the empty yard area behind our apartment complex. "get it" being the route of the game, because when a girl was found, her and the boy that found her had to go have sex in the bushes... sex of course being laying on the ground kissing and huntching fully clothed... One night Nathan, His sister, and I tricked his mother into letting me spend the night (i was spending the night with his sister)... That afternoon we played doctor, and made plans to get togeather and Kiss when his mom fell asleep... that never happened because his sister informed me that he had another girlfriend.
Knews got wind that i was a "fast" little girl, and soon my cousins wanted in on the action. My cousin Prentis, one afternoon while all the cousins were gathered building our "tents" took me behind the door and kissed me. Prentis was really handsome. He was mixed with indian (native american/india i dont know) and he was 2 years older than me. Not knowing how absolutely disgusting that was, i was really excited that "he liked me" and i wanted him to be my new boyfriend.
