Maseyree Mitchell

Wait and See

I was born in East St. Louis Illinois, the first child of my fifteen-year-old mother and father. My maternal grandmother had passed away about five months before me being born, so I was raised in the home with my paternal grandmother and her eight children. My mother’s father had passed away while my grandmother was still pregnant with my mom. Although my mother had seven siblings, they were all pretty much in the same situation as she was, they were left to make a way for themselves, by themselves.