Which chair would you choose to sit in? Discover what that says about your personality

something,” I said. “Where did you grow up?”

He hesitated.

Ezoic

“Chicago,” he said. “The South Side.”

Discover more

Edit Photos

Support Causes

news

Ezoic

“Your parents?”

“My mom raised me. And my grandmother.” He looked down at his hands. “My dad wasn’t around.”

“What did your grandmother do?”

He was quiet for a moment.

“She cleaned offices,” he said. “Downtown. Nights. For thirty-one years. She’d leave at nine p.m. and come home at six in the morning and then get me ready for school.”

“Did she bank?”

Something changed in his face.

“Once,” he said quietly.

I waited.

“I