“You’re brave to be wearing your hair like that,” she said, tying her box braids back into a ponytail with an elastic band, the ones that rip and pull at your hair when you try to take them out. I smiled back, but I knew it wasn’t a compliment.
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Shantaal Lovera
Shantaal Lovera is a 17-year-old high school student going into her senior year at WHEELS. In the future, she wants to be involved in dentistry even though she isn’t too fond of science, so that may change. Her biggest inspiration is her mother because her mother played both the mother and father role in herContinue reading “Shantaal Lovera”