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good morning on behalf of the Highland

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Heights alone zone and crossroads of

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freedom at rhodes college I would like

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to thank you for taking the time to

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share your story today's day is july 13

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2 2016 my name is Alana Kennedy and I

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attend middle college high school my

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name is Allison Henry and I attend makes

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sided with some basic questions about

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you in your life what is your name my

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name is Ashley black if you don't mind

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me asking what year were you born 1989

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uh where were you born and raised um i

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was born in Binghampton but i was raised

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and highland heights we moved to higher

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heights when I was five years old what

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is your occupation I work before sense

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for transforming communities is a

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neighborhood connector in South mythos

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have you married yet I am not married

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but I am engaged Oh what's his name his

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name is Denis reawakens okay well how

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did you meet in high school yes cute um

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what's his occupation he's in school

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suspension teacher at East High School

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okay um do you have any children I

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personally do not have any he does have

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our daughter and we've had her since she

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was six weeks old so she's mine what's

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your name her name is Madison okay cute

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now let's talk a little about your

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experiences growing up can you tell me

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about the neighborhood you grew up in

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sure um when I was growing up Hannah

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Heights was really quiet a lot of my

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neighbors were older I'm so I didn't

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have a lot of kids to play with on my

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street but my brother and I have made

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the best little headphone and rode our

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bikes and we would skate um play

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hopscotch junk room draw tic-tac-toe

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board switch off on the in the driveway

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so it was fun king-killers wit your home

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life was like yes um I was blessed and

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fortunate enough to have a two-parent

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home my mom and dad are still married

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I'm it's just me and my little brother

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four years apart so I'm like mom sister

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um I kept myself busy i will necessarily

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say that my parents did but i was able

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to see both sides of life and by there I

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mean my dad has just his high school

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diploma so he has to work harder but he

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taught me to work hard my mom has a

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master's degree in two bachelors um so I

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was shown that you can go past high

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school and how important it is Matt was

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very active in school I did not go to

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track well um my dad said no I wanted to

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go to white station but in order to do

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that I would have to ride the bus so my

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dad said no so i was at East High School

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and I was in the optional program I

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study engineering there and I mean I

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just I kept myself busy i was on student

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council board there's organization kyle

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tsa which is based around engineer so I

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did that and then I was in the marching

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band so filled with things to do you

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mentioned that you transition from

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different neighborhoods didn't pack you

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in any way no um I was really little so

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I vaguely remember um the only downside

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is that i didn't have a lot of kids to

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play with on my street versus the way it

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was when we lived and being hampton i

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stayed on princeton and like my

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next-door neighbors had children in the

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people across the street had kids around

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my age and so it made me want to go

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outside to play versus when I moved to

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Highland Heights my mom was like okay

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you've been in the house you need to go

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outside to play so it didn't really hurt

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it wasn't a major difference because I

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was so young now the neighborhood has

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more kids and I don't know they go out

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and they play and they're they're

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peaceful oh it's not too rowdy you can

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most definitely sell when they

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summertime when school is out there out

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later

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but is it it wasn't a major difference I

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know you breeze over talking about your

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parents can you tell me their names and

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what they were like sure my dad's name

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is Cedric black he goes by his middle

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name so i would call him Tyrone he has

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always worked two jobs not that he had

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to but he chose to he wanted to be able

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to pay bills and still give us

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everything that we could imagine we went

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out of town two to three times a year

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and that's just to show that there is

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something outside of Memphis and it out

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it allowed us to gain a different

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experience that most of my friends

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weren't fortunate enough to have um they

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didn't get to experience different

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cultures and I did and so there was a

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blessing um he's very quiet he doesn't

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talk a lot but when he speaks that means

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that you need to listen when he does

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talk he's a softy when it comes to girls

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so he didn't first in me a lot but he

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did not play about grades and what I

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mean by that is if I had a be in a class

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16 weeks the next six weeks I better

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have a Biore I cannot go down I'm so

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even if I had a I couldn't go down to a

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be i had to keep the egg and that's just

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the way he was um my mom did more of the

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discipline with me and I wasn't a

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troubled child um I wasn't perfect but

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wasn't a troubled child um but I think

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because I was the oldest she expecting

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more out of me so if my brother did

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something and I knew that he did not

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Intel it then I got in trouble or if

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when I got old enough to where we could

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stay home alone we had chores of course

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and if she would come home and my

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brothers chores weren't done I got in

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trouble because she's like you're in

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charge you should have made sure that he

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did it but it it made me accountable

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isn't a dope so I don't regret it at all

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because my mom was the scholar she

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understood that sometimes grades will

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file and so she didn't really

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push me in the ethnic on I learned to

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kind of punish myself in something like

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that happen all she asked for me to do

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was to be open and honest and if I

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wanted to come and talk to her about

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stuff to make sure that I talked about

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stuff and not to do anything to lose her

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trust did you attend the church I did

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I'm growing up I attended Greater New

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Salem witch is in South Memphis and

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that's where I've been my entire life

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that's where I got baptized and it was

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fun when I was younger we had vacation

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bible school during the week during the

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daytime so it was kind of like a summer

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camp for like a week oh but we had fun

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where's the church active in the

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community it was in this deal is we do

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walks from time to time um we have door

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knockers it is like a brochure that you

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can hang on the door this our excuse to

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come up and knock on your door to talk

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to you we're not pushy we just try to

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let you know what the church has to

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offer the community and if you come then

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we're happy to have you we do a lot of

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like feeding um we have a soup kitchen

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every Tuesday every quarter like at the

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end of the quarter we do a clothing

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drive we set it up like a store but it's

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free you come in and you shop and you

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get as much as we have and the reason

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why we do this some people might call it

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toxic charity because you're just

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handing stuff out versus teaching people

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how to work or earn things but in the

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church sense the reason why we don't see

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it that way most of the time is because

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in return people start coming to church

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oh and if nothing else we want them to

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know that there's a place there's always

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open for them to come to are there any

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memories that influence you later on

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your life from where charge or home

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um homem memories they influenced me is

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my pimp my parents like I said my dad's

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always worked two jobs and it showed me

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let me rewind not only did he worked two

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jobs when they first got married they

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only had one car and so him being the

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gentleman that he is my mom would take

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the car to work and he will walk to work

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so they showed me that there's no

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excuses um if he will walk to work

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winners summer fall spring then you

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don't have an excuse not to go to work

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he was determined to make sure that we

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didn't have to live the life that he

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lived my daddy started working a

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full-time job when he was in high school

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because he had to UM he was the man of

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his household growing up and so here to

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provide so he showed me that there's no

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excuses in life oh you can always make

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away my mom she got pregnant with me

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when she was attending the morning so

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she was 22 and she dropped out but she

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didn't let they break her her resume is

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so long that there is no way she can get

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it to a pay you know you go to a job

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interview and they say your resume

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should be a fake she can't do it is

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impossible because she's held so many

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different positions she's worked in

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convenience stores and gas stations and

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then she went into the corporate world

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and I think when I was like in middle

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school is when she went into the school

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system but her influence on me was

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determination umm we were very school we

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hit a home cooked meal every day the

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only day she did cook was probably on a

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Friday or Saturday we had a home-cooked

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meal she helped her homework I can not

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tell you're on this program or anything

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that she means she was always there she

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worked a full-time job and went to

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school to finish her degree and that's

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always spoiling us in my day and so I

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mean I just said I don't have any excuse

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as to why i don't go to follow my dream

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so I know you're pretty young but

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were the people in highland heights

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different then than they are now most

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definitely um it was predominately white

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when I first moved to highland heights

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like I mentioned earlier my neighbors

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were older so they've either passed away

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or they've moved away up until the

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beginning of the summer I only had one

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neighbor that was there that was left

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from when I was growing up and she since

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moved for whatever reason now I'm

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starting to see a lot of more smaller

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kids I think that the houses are being

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rented versus being purchased um so that

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makes a difference it is not anything

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that's bad like it's a cycle he changes

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me to come back around so it being the

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way i was when i was little but that's

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the only difference that i can see as

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far as there's a different culture

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that's there now what is the reputation

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of it varies the pink depending on who

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you talk to some people would say that

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it is still very quiet and tighten it

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and some ask why do you still live over

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there because the crime rate has

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increased but it's not unbearable I tell

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people all the time criminals travel so

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I can go to car evil i can live in

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germantown i can live in cordova but

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that's not going to stop the criminals

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um i think the major difference is its

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older people even for myself even though

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I'm still young um I have some keys they

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look up to me and I try to make sure

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that I live what I would want them to be

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so if you're not taking time out with

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the youth and if you're not showing them

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different things and they're going to go

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and figure it out on their own and I

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might go about it the wrong way that's

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gnarly the only thing

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what are some places in highlights that

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make it a better place trailers are

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great and said um I mean without kids

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there's really not a community you would

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all so I think the school being there is

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very important it keeps the kids there

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and I do different functions on

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throughout the school year for the kids

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and I think that is called howling house

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church is on the corner of summer and

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howling they're great they do in fact

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today they're having a school supply

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drive as we speak so they do things like

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that to you what is the best thing about

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highlight for my experience um there's a

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neighborhood watch without it being an

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official neighborhood watch people are

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always looking out um I can remember one

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time my mom got a package to the house

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and when we came home my neighbor came

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and knocked on the doors like you know

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this was left on your front porch but I

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picked it up I didn't want anybody to

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get E and then there was another time my

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brother he did a 10 trilling elementary

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school and he would walk home and he

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locked himself out the house one day and

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of course it's a child you're scaring

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you're panicking but our neighbors were

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able to help him and calm him down and

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call my mom to let her know what was

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going on so I was it's a neighborhood

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watch within itself is there any changes

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you like to see done to our lights um

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not anything major if if anything I

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would just like to see people take more

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time with the kids versus them walking

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up and down the street all day I just

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think that it'll help them overall can

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you tell us what highlights for me to

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you hallett ice is home um its

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foundation for me that's where I grew up

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so without it you wouldn't have the

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Ashley that you see today is there any

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advice you like to give to the youth

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always follow your dream never ever ever

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ever everything that is too late or that

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you can't do something if you're

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dreaming about it you can do it and stay

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focused um when you clock out from work

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your real job or the job that you think

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is your real job is when your real work

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begins and by that I mean you might have

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to work a nine-to-five but when you

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clock out at five o'clock it is your job

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to invest in yourself so make sure that

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you're always investing in yourself

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you're going to hear five knows so when

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yes but they're one yes might be a major

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use what we like to thank you for

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participating in the car shows to

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freedom and a neighborhood history

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project we really appreciate your story

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you're welcome