My name is Zenoba Lenel Shanklin, I was named after my great uncle who I never had the chance of meeting. My name is Greek it means life, originally my name comes from a woman Queen Zenobia from Palmyra. Im the oldest in my family of boys no girls. I have three little brothers and one niece and one nephew. My brother started having kids at age 14 LOL. I was raised by both of my grandmothers. Im from the North side of Chicago. I grew up in the projects of Cabrini Green one of Chicago's most dangerous projects. My grandmother in Chicago my fathers, mom raised me and my brother that’s next to me when we lived there. We then moved to Michigan some years later and my mother’s mom finished raising us... she adopted us in Oct. 1992 because my parents left us. Drugs at that time was more important.I never had the kind of child hood that most children get to experience, because my parents stayed on the streets for days sometimes weeks at a time, til the money ran out. Now that Im 24 I look back on my life and to be honest Im glad that I had to experience things like that because if I didn’t I prolly would be an ass hole. I had to struggle as a kid not having any parents around I had to stay home and watch my three little brothers at that time. I was very young and my little brothers were only 7, 2 and a baby. I had to keep my mouth closed from telling anyone that my parents were gone and if my mom found out I'll get my ass kicked. So I been thru a lot and still am going thru a lot. Last Oct. my fathers mom passed away and I miss her dearly. Sometimes I think that Im just dreaming and need to wake up but all I can do is sit and cry and move on.Because I know if she was still here she'd want me to be happy... so I smile cause I know that I am a part of her and so she exist in me and so therefore she’ll never die. My parents are now older in their early 40's and still using drugs. They had missed out on so much in my life. I don’t really know who my parents are... I do, but I don’t know what they were like as a child. I never had the opportunity of having a child hood relationship with them and to be honest I don’t have a adult hood relationship either. I hate it but what can I do. They don’t want help for themselves so I walk around daily knowing that my mom and dad will someday kill themself from doing too much drugs (overdose). At this point in my life Im trying to find out who Zenoba Lenel is. I just came out about two years ago about being gay.So I had to deal with having my family walk away from me and stop talking to me. I was also disfellowedshipped from the Jehovah’s Witness congregation. So Im finding out who I am and what I want in life. Life is too short not to enjoy it. Right now im looking to make some friends to hang out with and just have someone understands me as a person. I nolonger have a bf but when I did have a bf he didn’t take the time to understand were Im coming from or who I am as a person. So my conversations with him don’t last very long. I love him but he's more of an ass hole because he gets treated like a baby by his family (easy life style) unlike me on the other hand. Anyways sorry to drop such a long story of who I am but you asked... or should I say you’re looking at my profile so you’re wondering. I hope that you add me to your list and tell me who you are? Maybe we have something in common and maybe I can call you my friend my brother or my sister. ..This profile was edited with MySpace Profile Editor MySpace Profile Help! Beyonce'-Ring The Alarm
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