People around the world are wearing my clothes right now. How did this happen? Well, it began one rainy Saturday afternoon as I was cleaning the guest bedroom, an area that had become more of a storage room than anything else. The floor was littered with stacked boxes, filled with forgotten about knick-knacks and outgrown clothes. As I sorted through the piles, it had dawned on me that many of the items that my family had deemed useless, could actually...

Describe the world you come from — for example, your family, community or school — and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations. The lights go up. I grab hands with my fellow castmates as we take our final bow, and the audience roars. Tears well up in my eyes as I am reminded that this is my last high school production. I am suddenly transported to the distant memory of what I was like before I came...