Veterans Day

So, followers…

In honor of Veterans Day this year, figured I’d blog about one of my fave relatives & fellow soldier in The Game of Life, my Uncle Ch!qüi.

Uncle Ch!q got his nickname from being high yellow as a baby, like a lil baby chick 🐣

And even though he ain’t got no kids to speak of (the only “baby” he truly claims is his Main Thang, Miss Ang3l@ Dü$t 🌬), we *BOTH* consider ourselves dads—specifically, Latinidads 😜

If you’ve been keeping up with !i$@ bee™’s Crazy Genetics, you’ll remember my uncle-cousin-dad Cüzz0—who got along so well with one of his cellblock-mates in the clink that I came to know the man as Unc, a.k.a. “Ch!q.”

Literally any- & every-thing Cüzz0 did this n!g Ch!q found hilarious. 

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...Which, I get it: Cüz *was* funny AF. 

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But Ch!q would *stay* laughing even when wasn’t sh!t funny—we all thought he had some kind of disorder at first 😟 

As it turns out, Uncle Ch!q just remained dü$ted at all times 👼🏽 

I’m never judging him (or anybody, really), but addiction is just one of many insidious ways The Life consumes your soul 😱 

Anyways. Like Cüzz0, Ch!q grew up with a wild a$$ deviant-minded mama named Z3ld@ who taught him how to hustle 🤑 

She & Aunt C0ññ!e were like “Sisters in H0e” or sum’n; they had almost the same exact upbringing & philosophical approach to life…

That approach being: 

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“F*çk these 🥷s, get 💰,” 

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pretty much 🙄✊🏾 

Being raised by such women impacted Cüzz0 & Ch!q in such a way that *only* the two of them could ever really understand the plight of the other. 

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They were brothers, in that sense, for life 🩸 

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At one point, the two had a reputation on their block for being “bütt buddies” #LOL—and, naturally, they ran with it 🤦🏾‍♀️

Cüz identified as qu33r anyway—being raised by the likes of Aunt C0ññ!e turned him off finding most women attractive—and didn’t mind too much. 

Ch!q was always & forever dü$ted & found the whole thing amusing AF. If he had to pretend to identify as a qu33r individual to spend quality time with his block brother-slash-real-life cousin (😅) Cüzz0—well, that’s just what it was 🤷🏾‍♀️

Not only that, but Unc’s nickname was “Ch!q,” which allowed Cüz to say he “stayed with a chick” on his arm, even in federal supermax prison 🤭 

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Chile, these men were a mess!!! 🤣

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Anyways. After Cüzz0 unofficially “d!3d,” literally everyone we knew had to get new names & IDs, even Uncle Ch!qüi. 

I remember asking Uncle Ch!q what his new name was & if I could still call him “Uncle Ch!q;” he actually had to take out his newly-issued out-of-state ID to see what name he was going by now, smoove laughing his a$$ off the whole time 🙃 #SMH 

On the surface, it appeared you couldn’t take Uncle Ch!q *nowhere* with his dü$ted ahh, forever uncontrollably laughing at some—oftentimes—very serious sh!t. 

But I’ll always remember his goofy self for levitating the mood during a really chaotic time for me & The Fam—for that, I'm eternally grateful 🥲

I ain’t got problems with Uncle Ch!q’s mama Z3ld@, either:

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That’s a Baaad B!tch right there, & I respect her energy ✊🏾🇨🇴

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…My main issue is with Aunt C0ññ!e, since I’m a direct descendent of that h0e. 

But then again, C0ññ!e & Z3ld@ were sister-besties—ahhhh!!! 😬

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It’s #complicated, y’all. But I guess that’s f(r)amily for ya 🥰

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