Dakina Stories 206 - Being Shay
February 5 2015 : It was 6:30 on a Thursday morning, Shay was up getting ready for school. She use to get up at 5:30 to go to school in the Bronx coming from East New York in Brooklyn but her sorphmore year of high school she transferred to a high school in downtown Brooklyn by the A C N R W& F trains on Jay Street making the commute easier. Shay just turned 15 a few days ago on January 24th. Shay her 3 sisters Sienna who is 18 in her senior year of high school, she was in a alternative school so she’d be graduating early by the end of March, Stella who is 19 still in high school, 5 months pregnant, & Xenia who is 24 the 2nd oldest of the girls, Shay was 15 & her brother Silas who is 25 with Shay’s nephew Gael who just turned 2, Shay’s mother the head of the apartment in Unity Plaza Nycha Projects ( where crime & gun violence was at a all time high) who was 50 years old Amelia, she look good for her age, all of her kids expect Xenia took after her fair skin...