I'll allow all of your assumptions about my hometown stand... One night, while watching the evening news, like my mother and I did every -- single --  day, a story about homelessness in Baltimore aired. After watching the story share the incredibly sad and disheartening stories about people from where I'm from, I turned to my mother, at six, and said, "Mommie, I want to build an apartment complex for all of the homeless people to live! I'm going to pray to God to bless me with money so I can do it!" My mother looked at me, gave her encouraging words AND rebuttals... Little did we BOTH know, God was moving even then. My mother looked at me, gave her encouraging words AND rebuttals... Little did we BOTH know, God was moving even then.