There’s a Universe Inside You

A story of perseverance and perspective

Photo by: Kiefer Dixon

I knew I had a purpose, but why did I feel like cellophane? I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in the early ’90s between the dope dealers on Flatbush and the Haitians playing dominos on Church Ave. My mother got pregnant with me at fifteen years old, and my father was shot and killed three days after my first birthday. Growing up in Brooklyn was rough; however, I made the…