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Mark

Lealan and Lloyd support each other i can tell that there probably were not that many day's they didn't spend together. With all the craze of family, school, friends, and the neighborhood they had to get away whether a bus ride to the shore or just at a diner it was they're way of some norm ency. At times it was being alone in they're separate homes but it allowed them to think of past, present, and future. As the documentaries gained media coverage people wanted more so they wrote Our America giving and inside look to the public. Now that the book has been published Lealan has traveled the globe to talk more on the book and the helped needed in the hood. So something that started off small ended up being bigger than ever imagined. Sometimes my best friend is that get away for me as i am for her, sometimes a hug or just a conversation helps me more then she/he will ever know. I love to walk around at night especially downtown so beautiful it helps me to think or just be free. Writing has always been my way of doing my part that's when I'm not debating. But hopefully journalism will open doors so that my words and voice can be heard on the main stream media. Knowing that i am doing my part means all the world to me.


Jessica

Because of the neighborhood, school system, and his family situation you could say Lealan and Lloyd feels that way. But i don't think they do it seems as if they have matured to understand that there's somethings you can't control so you have to make the best out of it. True they want the neighborhood, schooling, family, all to be a lot better than it is but they act as if they want to make it so that things can be better. I am sure they are vulnerable and they want better than what they have been given but they don't complain about how they wish life can be different but instead they use it to make them better and stronger. As for Lealan he never got to meet his father and most would let that hold them back, but he takes it and uses it to be better than him as a man and one day probably as a father. Lloyd mother has past but instead of being mad all the time it has taught him a new found respect for his sisters who has raised him. In my life i have lost a many people but i don't feel abandoned i just miss them and smile at the memories. I have always been around older people i think that's where i get my maturity from it also made me wise and old fashioned when it comes to certain things. So at times i do feel out of place, or different but i love it and i have no regrets.