"My father was taken to pr!son when I was just a year old. I never got to feel what it meant to have a dad.

At age four, I lóst my mother too. She d!ed in a car crash while on her way to visit him. She never came back.

That’s how I lost both parents—one to pr!son, the other to déath.

No one prepares you for that kind of emptîness. I had to grow up fast… without the two people who gave me life.

What no one wishes for is to finally make it—only to realize your parents aren't here to enjoy it with you.
I pray no one lóses their parents like I did… before they make it in life."

— Daniel Etim-Effiong