I, Rashelle A. Rogers, was born in Tampa, Florida on March 30, 1974 to Roosevelt and Brenda Rogers. The memory of my early childhood is very vague. I remember the story that my parents told me regarding an allergic reaction to spoiled milk at day care at age one. The story goes that I was hospitalized for a month and when I left the hospital no one thought I was going to make another day. Upon my arrival home, a neighbor told Brenda and Roosevelt about an Asian alternative medicine clinic. My parent took me to the clinic and the doctor place me on some type of herbal diet and I began to put on weight and show signs that I was among the living and “God is with me,” mom would say. Around the age of two, I had fallen out of a two-story window while mother was asleep and almost hit a rock by a few inches. One neighbor rush up to get mother from upstairs while another went to check to see if I was hurt. I was fine and I was laughing as well as the story has been told to me and father would say, “It must be that God is with you.” From around 3-5 years old, I stayed with both sets of grandparents with one set for six months and then the other set for six months in Jacksonville, Florida. Mother was pregnant with twins, Roosevelt III and Rashard Rogers. Everyone thought it was best that I stayed with …show more content…
I can remember believing in God all my life and believing in the literal interpretation of the Bible as I was taught as a child in the Baptist home. I begin to have problems with the literal interpretation of the Bible when I was a child. I could be anything I wanted to be at home and school but not at church. I could not go certain places or do certain things because I was a girl. This is when I remember father’s parents taking me to West Union Missionary Baptist Church. I loved going to Sunday School and singing in the choir and as everyone says I was the child that asked a lot of