So I had to be like five, four years old, when this happened, but it’s still a vivid memory. And I remember this, this is probably my youngest like real memory that I have, and it was terrifying. So, I went down to Chicago, and I stayed for a week with my aunt and uncle all by myself, which — and my cousins was well, who are my age and then also an older cousin who was now in college. But — so I had to sleep on an air mattress in the ground with my older cousin, who’s nineteen now in their room. And my mattress was like, right next to their bed. And somehow during a night, I’m just sleeping on the bed and it was like, not — the air mattress wasn’t like full of air. And so, it’s kind of like, whenever you roll around , there’s not air where you’re laying. And so, somehow when I woke up in the middle of the night, I’m under my cousin’s bed, and I’m like, am I blind? I can’t see, what’s happening? And I try to get up, and I bumped to my head. I’m like, oh my gosh. I’m under my cousin’s bed right now. And so I start screaming ’cause I’m unable to get out. It was like, small. I don’t know how I got under there. And — so I’m just trying to squish my way out, but I get to about my chest, like I somehow got my legs out, and I’m just stuck. And so, my aunt comes in, she sees my legs are out from under the bad, and she’s like, oh my gosh, she’s just tugging my legs, and she’s just tugging it. And after like half an hour, took a really long time, I got out, and it was just really scary, and I still remember that.

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