Non-Fiction - Memories
Memories reveal the environment, culture, mindset and impacts of the moments, regardless of the age of experience.

As a child I wanted to be a great ballerina. I was told I started dancing to the music my mother played on the piano before I started walking. The world I came from: I went to a NYC public Junior High School, in which the principal would address us every day over the sputtering PA system, warning us that anyone caught with a garrison belt, brass knuckles or a switchblade knife would be immediately expelled. The candy store across the street sold "candy" (aka heroin) to studen

My brother spent almost half of his childhood in hospitals. He was born a blue baby (the third Rh+ child born to an Rh- mother) and was an intersex child (which through DNA tests, they assessed him to be male and entered him (with my mother’s permission) into their experimental program of surgically making those in the program appear and function more like everyone else of their gender.