HerStory

a timeline of ho
august 7, 1977 i am bornt under a street lamp in the royal village trailer court--toledo, ohio--da poorman's detroit, daddy was a fry cook, mama was 19 years old

1978 daddy leaves us..i'm one year old..so i don't really know the difference

1982 ...now i know da difference cuz everytime my mama slap me in da face she scream "yo daddy was a fry cook who LEFT us"...i am 5 years old for half of dis year 1984...2nd grade and da black boys all try to kiss me...i don't know whyz, but I like it and I start charging them a quarter each time they want to kiss me...i get caught...sent to the principalia's office with 20 dollas of quarters in my pocket... fo da first of many times i am shamed into submission..i stop selling kisses 1985...3rd grade and i am president of da brownies...dese girls love me...we tuck our jumpers into our skirts and walk around singing Peaches' Girlfriend...you know you shouldn't let him treatcha so bad...and da jets... i gots a crush on you. 1986..mama gets married to a new man named harold junkins..he is nice, but sometimes he mean to me..when i don't pick up my toys and let the dog sit on my shoes... he moves us across town to a big new house...and a stoopit new school. i hate dis new school all da kids are mean to me, they make fun of my clothes...and call me a fatty..i say "i ain't fat, i'm healthy!" but dat just makes them laugh at me more...i am so unhappy until I meet Tameko Cook 1986-1989 da Tameko Cook years...we are best friends and love each other...dis gurl has no idea what an impact she make on my life...she call me on da phone and ax me..gurrrl...you wanna come to my mama's jerry party? i say "who jerry?" she say "you know, earrings, necklaces, bracelets" i LOVE JERRY...except when its peelin and turn yo skins green..dat is true to dis day. 1990 we gots to move again...to Erie, Pennsylvania, and I am now 13 years ode..i got my period dis year on Chrima day...my mama say "Merry Chrima" i use always maxipads with the wangs and it feel like i am wearing a diaper on my ass...i see those lil tampons..they look like little white mouses...i wonder what they are for...how do you use them? we get the sex talk at school, and i ax da teacher "how do you use a tampon?" and everybody laugh...she sends me to the pricipalia office 1991 high school..and i do mean HIGH..cuz i wuz for most of it... to be continued