Ice-T

My mother passed away when I was in third grade. I was there when she died. We were sitting together, watching Batman on TV. She tilted her head back and started to breathe heavily; she was having a heart attack. My father knew something was happening, and he told me to go next door to our neighbors'. I was there when the ambulance came...

Four years later, when I was in the seventh grade, I was called down to the principal's office. I knew I hadn't done anything, so obviously it was something about my father... He'd had a heart attack, just like my mother.

I've always felt like an outsider. Every Thanksgiving, every Christmas, it was me, sitting at someone else's table. It was that vibe like when you're over at somebody's house and they're whispering in the kitchen, "Why is he here?"

It was only recently that Coco and I were married. It's hard to trust that when you give yourself up to love, it won't be taken away from you like everything else. You're afraid to fall truly in love because you don't want something to happen. You cross your fingers every day.

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