Good morning just now getting up and I wanna share A lil more with you about myself. Well, my name is Kelvin Lee and I’m from the south side of Chicago I grew up in the Projects called Stateway Gardens, and it was low-income. Well I come from a family that didn’t have much, my mother had 6 kids, five boys, and one girl.
I was born 1-27-86 in Chicago at Michael Reese Hospital a healthy six pound and nine ounce baby. I was brought up as a survivor, not on love. My Father was on drugs to the extreme, where it was like we didn’t have a father. My mother was so distracted by his behavior that it was like we didn’t have a mother either. So at that time in my life I felt like I was forced to hustle… at age 14 I became involved in the street. Looking back that is where I made my worst decision, cause I wish I could have had a normal life as a 14-year-old boy. My chance at finishing school was gone in the blink of an eye. Next thing I knew I was in juvenile detention and that made things so much worse. As soon as I was released from detention I dropped out of school. You know one of my dreams was to go to Prom, and that and other things I was missing out on really had a negative impact on me and my mental attitude toward the path I was on. It was like me against everyone else in the world around me. At the same time, I had this pressure to take care of my siblings at home and I was making poor choices one after another. I mean there were some nights that we went to bed so hungry and I would lay there so upset thinking I am only 14 and this isn’t how life is for other kids my age or my sibling’s age.
I just want to take a moment to Praise God for giving me the opportunity to correct all the poor choices I have made, and that I can get my life together and focus on being a mature man and father myself. I have an amazing family, a beautiful wife, and beautiful kids. And I pray that the choices that led me to be incarcerated now will not have an impact on my kids’ choices and their paths for the future. I am really conscious of my kids and that is why my success is so crucial. I am making extraordinary efforts to work on successfully transitioning from incarceration to being a responsible man and father.
I thank God for my wife. She is so supportive of the change in me and my efforts. She is definitely my number one fan of these choices I am making now.
