DAVON My most memorable [moment] would be probably my mom passing and how it affected my life. A lot of the decisions that happened and a lot of the things that went on in my life -- that really affected a lot of it. The thing that’s stood out the most to me in my life would be the things that help me turn around: the people around me, the things I pay attention to, the people that I listen to. They really help me benefit from the stuff that I do. If I put myself in a bad spot, then that’s going to make me go down the wrong path. So if I keep myself around the right people -like I have been doing -- then I’m just going to keep doing what I’m doing. My sister was really strict on me and she told me -- coming into high school -- I was going to have to turn it around. She put her foot down and she made me -- that’s what made me really start doing better. My sister or my grandpa or my sister’s boyfriend or anybody, really -- they always tell me that they’re really proud of me for the turnaround that I made. My older brother -- he’s eighteen and in college -- he texts me all the time and tells me to keep up the good work and all that, and I really look up to him a lot. The older guys that were in the hood, they encourage you to stay in school and stuff. They don’t want you to be like them, they don’t encourage you to go jump in no gang and do what they did growing up as a kid. Really, stuff like that. They point you in a different direction; it kind of helps you when you really pay attention and listen to what they’re saying to you, because that’s not really a life that you want to get into. Hadley and Weil, and that was a nice neighborhood. We stayed on Buffum. 32nd and Wisconsin... Growing up, I obviously moved around a lot.
Even before my mom was passed, we stayed in one house to begin with: that was the house that had burned down. And once that house burned down, we were homeless. We didn’t really have nowhere to go until my grandma found a house. We moved in. It wasn’t really a home: it was a house. We couldn’t even use our back yard, people -- It just really wasn’t good. It wasn’t a good neighborhood. We ended up moving. My other grandma was moving out of a house, so we were moving into that one as they were moving out. When we moved in there, that really felt like home -- that was the house on Buffum. I loved that house. And then we moved out of there -- and there was another house, actually, that I skipped before. The one that my grandma originally found after the house burned down was on Fratney, and we ended up having bed bugs, so we had to move into the other house where we couldn’t use the back yard. And we moved out of that house, again. And that’s when we found Buffum. And then we stayed in there for a good seven years. Four years down the road, my grandma started getting sick. This was my great grandma, by the way. She started getting sick, and she got dementia. After like eight months -- six months of her having dementia, she passed. So she’s been passed for like eight months now, I want to say. Close to a year. And then, after she passed, my sister had the house for like, a year -- no, not like a year. Maybe like six months. And then we moved into our new house on 32nd, and we’ve been living there since the start of my eighth-grade year. Football is really my passion. I really love playing football. When I came into high school, playing football -- it just opens up a whole new me. I just love the sport. [I’m] Someone who works hard at what he wants and is very confident in himself. I’m a person that would do anything for anybody that he loves.