My mother didn’t have the budget for me to compete with the kids who had Jordans or AF1s or who rocked any of the more expensive brands. This was something I had hard feelings about when I was younger. Maybe that seems like a shallow thing to care about, but there was something deeper underneath. My friends and I based our self-worth on how fly our clothes were, because where else were we going to get self-worth from? All of our parents, if we e…
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