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Aaron: "I moved from Seattle to Miami to be a music minister and go to school. I saw Margaret at a concert and wanted...

"We were farm people in north Alabama. My dad raised chickens and cows, and I was a tomboy and grew up working on the...

"I've had a lot of loss the past few years. My dad died of COVID in January. My mom passed away two years before that....

"I've treated Coronavirus patients in the ICU since day one. It's been a whirlwind. In the beginning, we had no idea...

“I should be dead. In the middle of the night, my stepmother wrapped my head in sheets and banged me against the wall....

"Mu friend Richard Hamilton was furloughed at the start of the COVID when the store he works for shut down. He started...

"This building was my dad's appliance store in Yazoo City. I've worked here ever since I was seven. I dusted and swept...

I left Cuba by boat in 1994 with my husband, sister, and 10 other people. I was 17 and held my young child in my arms....

“I was born after World War One. I had bronchial asthma for a long time when I was young. The doctors thought I would...

“I'm the seventh of 12 children. We grew up in Gee's Bend. We didn't have much, but I never considered myself poor...

"I grew up in Lexington, Mississippi. Ever since the day I painted my name on her bedside table at three years old, my...

“I grew up in Young, Alabama. My mama's parents' last name was Irby, but they had to change their last name to Pettway...