YOUTH NOW
“Maybe I Could Save Myself By Writing”
As a Latinx teen in Chicago, he belonged nowhere—until he found his voice
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5 min readSep 12, 2018
When I was a teenager, I felt like I belonged nowhere. I know it’s a cliché: Ni de aqui, ni de alla, but damn if I didn’t feel that. I walked around with my head to the ground. I was just trying to get through each day.
