My name is Bernice Innocent (pronounced E-No-San). I was born in Brooklyn, New York to Haitian immigrants. If my mom tells it, I was born in the middle of a blizzard and cost her over $1,000. “It was worse than staying at a hotel” (she actually recanted the experience to me this morning). I say, it was the best money she’s EVER spent. I am the first child for both of my parents. However I was raised by a single (Tiger) mom. We were two peas in a pod. We moved to Prince George’s County (Mitchellville to be exact) while I was in elementary school; I must say . . . I hated Maryland. But it is here, that my mom met my step-dad Charlie, and I eventually become the eldest of six.
