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Damn, they were right...

Alfred Keith · Wednesday, July 13th 2005 at 2:14AM · 437 views
Man, as i get ready 2 leave in august...i think of all the lil bits of advice and lil things people have told me ova the past 4 years...and one of them was at my H.S. freshman orientation, they said that only a fraction of us would be here for out senior year...that some of us would drop out, get pregnant or get sumone else pregnant, get caught up in drugs, or even be killed...and i remember sittin there thinkin, they're B.S.ing...they're jus tryin 2 scare us into walkin tha straight n' narrow...since then it seems as though day afta day, that B.S. that i thought they were talking was becoming more and more true...i was in denial for awhile, but i mean, as august 20th comes closer and closer, i see all of the people that got pregnant, or got sumbody else pregnant, got caught up in drugs, and all tha otha ish...i mean, i hope i don't sound like an afta school special or anything, but 2nite, thats jus really tweakin me, cats that i used 2 hoop wit at tha park, cats that i used 2 play baseball wit, dead, n all kinds of otha ish...ah well, im done tweakin for tha night, Holla.

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Alfred Keith Chicago, IL

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Monica Brown Wednesday, July 13th 2005 at 10:48AM

Thank God you made it, Baby Boy. Always remember that conversation and be in the fraction that gets it done. Do your thang and walk tall and proud like a Black man should.

Mama Mo

Darryl D. Smith Wednesday, July 13th 2005 at 12:13PM

man...I feel you. Some of the same advice came back to me too. As a matter of fact, my Freshman Seminar professor told the class, "Look around now. These people that sit around you, some of them will drop out." Little did you know, one of my homegirls dropped out of college after one semester...

And no...you don't sound like an afterschool special. You sound like a young man who is maturing and realizing his ambitions...

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