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10 weeks before I was due my twin brother and I where born on August 4th, back in 2006. My mom didn't expect my brother and I to be born at the time so we where both born at our home in Brooklyn New York. My twin brother Najji weighed about 2.8lbs and I weighed about 3lbs. We where in hospital incubators for about a month before we went home.

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In 2009 my family moved from New York city to the US Virgin Islands. We moved to St. Thomas and we stayed with my great-grandparents. We stayed there until 2015. A lot of my earliest memories took place in St. Thomas.

I started playing soccer in St. Thomas and soccer is still my favorite sport today. I also started playing videogames and watching YouTube in St. Thomas. YouTubers influenced my personality back then, And to this day I still love playing videogames. I made my first real friends at my School in St. Thomas as well. I had a lot of firsts In the years that I lived there.

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Picture of the Crane, Fort, and Clock Tower, a few blocks away from my home in St.Croix

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In the summer of 2014 my older brother, Joswa and my twin brother, Najji went to St. Croix to stay with our grandparents for the summer. Over that summer, I went to a summer camp ran by my Nana. She helped teach me a lot of basic adult things like pumping gas, depositing checks, and using a credit/debit card. Over that summer I also became immersed in internet culture. I started consuming a lot of media in my free time and my internet was completely unrestricted so I was introduced to a lot of new things. I fell in love with music around this time and I also had plenty of experiences that I get nostalgia from. I started playing a lot of videogames and watching YouTube a lot more often during this summer.

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This is a picture of my brothers and I near a beach in St. Croix (2016)

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During this time  me and my brothers stayed in St. Croix and we attended a school ran by my grandmother. The most prominent childhood memories I have took place here. I also get super nostalgic and feel extremely happy whenever I visit St. Croix.

Most of the memories I have here are smaller moments. I entertained myself in a lot of different ways while I was on the Island. I explored a lot in my grandparents backyard. My brothers and I weren't always allowed to play videogames or watch TV back then so we had to go outside and be creative. We played make believe to entertain ourselves. I used to get in trouble with my Nana pretty often and when I did I was forced to watch boring tennis matches with her. In general I made plenty of good memories during the year that I spent in St. Croix.

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Move To Berkeley/ First year in Berkeley.

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Move To Berkeley/ First year in Berkeley.

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After the summer of 2016 my older brother and I moved to California while my twin brother moved to New York with my mother. This move was the third major move I made as a child. At the time I had a very distorted view of what American school was like. I thought I was gonna be living in Hollywood and school was going to be like the TV shows I watched. I was completely mistaken.

I didn't have a great first year in California. It was hard for me to adjust to all the new things in the new environment. I was catapulted into a school with a bunch of kids who already knew each other and It took a while for me to fit in.  I was bullied in elementary school because of my name and my background. I was different than everyone else and it was hard for me to find common ground with my classmates. Eventually I got used to living in Berkeley and by the time my fifth grade year was over, I got used to Living in Berkeley.

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On March 15 2020 all Berkeley schools closed until the end of Spring break. Schools didn't end up re-opening until over a year later. During this time I didn't really talk to anyone at all outside of the family members I was living with. My outgoing and sociable personality turned into a more closed of anti-social personality. I also gained a lot of weight and I became generally unhealthy.

There where some negatives that came out of the quarantine but there where also some positives. My interest in Anime rekindled during online school and I started watching anime everyday during class. I also started listening to music more often which is something I still do to this day. I discovered a lot of new YouTubers and some of them are still my favorites to this day.

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Birth: 8/4/06
Car accident: 2013
Move From NY to STT: Summer 2009
St.Croix Summer: July-September 2014
Year in St.Croix: 2015
Move to Cali: Summer 2016
Little Cousin Birth: November 2017
My Dad's Wedding: September 4 2021
First Working Experience: Summer 2022

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Negus Bailey was born on August 4th 2006. In his free time he likes to listen to music, play videogames, watch various forms of entertainment or hang out with family. He's always been close with his immediate family. He moved to Berkeley back in 2016 and he currently attends Berkeley Highschool. He lives with his father, his older brother, and his stepmother. As of 9/5/2022 his main goal is academic excellence.