Meeting up with guys using the train 😂 why was we 14 getting off at West Cold Spring and Rogers — be so foreal lol honorable mention for Old Court — cause some of them lived out there.

Sitting awkwardly at his aunt or grandmother house while he do something around the house for her and grab a plate of food. Now they asking you questions 😭😭😅

Getting food with him at:

Stokos
Italianos
Dino’s

Depends on the side of town lol depends on the guy.

Spraying letters with Victoria’s Secret or Bath & Body to send out Towson or Jessup. IYKYK.

Boyfriend with a Honda, Acura or pre 2015 a Crown Vic.

Homegirl who lives in Owings Mills and acts like coming to the city is a road trip.

Situationship who lives in with his Grandmother down the hill.

Spring and Summer didn’t mean crabs until a lil’ later because kids didn’t really always get crabs. They didn’t want you to just play with them.

to and respecting the women who were older than you. We didn’t have kiddie discos in NY but Baltimore did. I still remember Ms. Terry’s cucumber salad on Old Court Road in the county, always with a little sugar. Or Ms. Jubilee’s fried fish, always with a fried potato and glass of red juice.

those stories. A little girl knowing the difference between an early April breeze in a Bronx high rise, the way the walls sweat when you turned the oven on. Or the freedom of flipping on some trampoline on the shore. The two very different languages. The very similar traditions of listening

It was a trick my good girlfriend, Miracle’s grandmother taught me on the Eastern Shore the times I went with them. I remember the fields and the trampoline across from the trailer where we slept. People often ask me why it’s important that I still emphasize that I’m from New York and it’s in