Derrick Anderson Lewis was on November 14, 1988 in Louisville, Kentucky to his hard-working and single mother
Ms. Carmen Rochelle Lewis. Due to his father’s absence he assumed the role of man of the house at an early age. Because his dad was sentenced to prison 4 months before he was born, and because of that he took it upon himself to be there for his mother and his precious baby sister Gabby who was six years younger than him. He helped raise her and looked after like she was his own, and he credits this experience for helping shape him into the father that he is today. Now he had just 6 when his sister was born and that Were his doctors had discovered the he had epilepsy, for which some he felt could have taken his life at any given time. And between the ages of 6 to 15 he had at least 2 or 3 every year or so to the point where they were happening so frequently
that his mother had to quit working just to watch him. Because everyone was afraid to watch him due to their fear of not knowing how to handle him once he went into one. However, after years of being teased and tortured by his
Classmates he turned to poetry to help him escape from the cruel treatment he suffered in his youth. From being made fun of because is condition and slow speech, having a phone book thrown at his head, being dangled off his middle school banister, to having his head piledriven into the concrete floor in his class etc. But Mr. Lewis is resilient to say the least and doesn’t let nothing or nobody stop him, nor does he use his condition as a crutch but to use his testimony to encourage others. That’s why he’s hesitant to tell anybody what he has, because he doesn’t want no one to treat him different. As he now is a successful author of two books, a single father of adorable six-year little girl, who he has had the custody of since 2017, and continues to be a loving son and brother. So, as he says “don’t feel bad for me because God brought him through, because it’s all proven”..............
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