The sense of community that Charleston once had is what's home to me.

It doesn't have that anymore, but that is what that used to be, just this sense. And what I mean by that is my grandmother retiring from the hospital and my family being so big and Charleston being so small at the time in downtown Charleston, I could just roam around the streets every day after I got out of school.

I had to be at my grandmother's house by five something before my mom got off work, but I had to have my homework done. So, if I got my homework done at school, I could have two hours to just roam around downtown Charleston. But my family was so big, and this is when it was okay for kids to just roam around. My family was so big, it didn't matter what street I was on, where I was at, somebody was like, "you're DeeDee's granddaughter, you Lorraine's niece, you Tasha's niece," you this and that.