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Alanah Nichole Davis as a little girl figuratively driving to the polls. LESLIE DAVISI can’t really speak to what generations after me are doing but I come from a line of matriarchs, aunts and mothers— both biological and social— who don’t take any mess when it comes to how you approach them in conversation. My Grandma Alice Creque who was my mother’s mommy passed away when I was in middle school but I have so many fond memories of spending time with her in the Bronx, NY where I was born. Grandma…]]>