Out on the stoop, standing in the snow, was Dasani’s stepfather, Supreme, a 37-year-old barber. She carried no suitcase, only a stack of family photographs, a bottle of perfume and a small black purse filled with dozens of coins. ![]() To avoid saying goodbye, she distracted Lee-Lee with the cartoon show “Peg + Cat,” slipping away before the toddler noticed. She was her mother’s firstborn but acted more like a parent with her tight-knit flock of siblings, who spanned the ages of 2 to 12 - her “full blood” sister, Avianna, their four half siblings, Maya, Hada, Papa and Lee-Lee, and two stepsiblings, Khaliq and Nana. She had spent her rocky childhood guarding the survival of her siblings, learning to change diapers before she was in kindergarten. ![]() “Yet.”Įven Dasani had yet to grasp what her departure would mean. ![]() “She don’t understand,” Dasani whispered. The toddler pushed her tiny nose into Dasani’s face, mumbling “No, no, no, no.” Then she poked Dasani in the eye with a piece of Bazooka bubble gum. “You know Sani leaving, right?” her mother told Baby Lee-Lee that morning.
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