Growing up on the South side of Chicago, getting lost as a child, was actually a blessing in disguise. I will always remember the time my mother sent me downtown to the Daley Center to get a copy of my birth certificate and I got lost. I had not traveled outside of my immediate community to know that the State Street bus would take me downtown and back home in Stateway Gardens, on Federal Street, a block west of State Street.
After the death/transition of my mom, Katie, I went to live with my Aunt Edna in Mississippi, which scared me to death. As I matured and begin to travel in life, going to new places was no longer uncomfortable to me. I somehow knew that I’d make it back home safely.
I have lived South, North, West and East. I have learned that neither side is better than the other. People say “The South Side is the Devout Side, and the West Side is the Best Side.” You make the best of what you have, and who you are, wherever you are, inside.
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