A 27-Year-Old Writer Wise Beyond His Years
It was right after the turn of the millennium that Ryan Songalia, then 13, spent Christmas in a Texas juvenile detention center. And even as recently as three years ago, the future seemed less than assured, despite a trip to Carnegie Hall to accept a journalism award.
From Songalia’s powerful New Year’s Eve essay:
Just months prior to my Carnegie date, when I was waiting tables at a Cheesecake Factory restaurant in Hackensack, New Jersey, I couldn’t have even imagined anyone reading my stories.
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