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𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘦.
With the profession starting out as a predominantly white field, the first Childs woman that was born into slavery in Georgia and forcefully torn away from her family to Southern California with the family she worked for, she, Dalia Childs, became the first Black female to work in real estate. Dalia was a woman declared free in 1856 with her skills in nursing she saved for her first property and once numerous properties were under her belt along with an increase in wealth, Dalia searched for her family of a husband and son that left Georgia.
The year-long search led her to the Sooner State where she found her husband, free and a sharecropper, and only son that was teenager.
Oklahoma became the stomping grounds for Dalia to widen her real estate business and opened her first building. Childs Real Estate became a successful yet controversial business for the South. She went through numerous amount of buildings and starting over due to it getting burned down. But by her death with her husband, the realty business became her son's and passed down to every single child barring the blood of a Childs, becoming a eminent family business.
The Childs blood had given birth to only males that were only child's, until 1946 when the first ever girl and again only child was born, Felicia Childs. It, then, started the next two generations of women barring the last name.
Growing up and groomed for the family business, Felicity Childs was the next only child in line to take over the business and obtained several degrees while learning, mothering, and wife duties to a police officer.
Felicity became the first child in a longline of only child's to birth two children and were girls. There was only one daughter of hers that had a desire to take on the business once Felicity retires, while the other went towards the dangerous career in law enforcement following in her Father's footsteps.
The father of sisters, Akil and Maleah Childs was Nicholas Cooper who was born and raised in OKC and a young Navy Seal before returning to join the Police Academy. Nicholas climbed the racks in the field rather quickly, teaching his Daddy's girl everything about weapons and life and critical thinking of an officer. By the time of his death at Akil's tender age of fourteen, Nicholas was ranked the Chief of Police and murdered in the line of duty.
It left Felicity a widow and Akil and Maleah fatherless children. While Maleah worked towards becoming the protege to Felicity and rebranding the family real estate business, Akil left the city behind after graduation for the US Army and after five years joined the police force, being in it every since.
For that reason of stubborn Akil putting her life in danger every second with her career is what led to the topic the Thursday morning in the Childs favorite brunch spot in Press Waffle Co for breakfast. Akil had drove down to her hometown to attend the breakfast with her mother and sister. At the table, Akil lost count of how many times she rolled her eyes in annoyance at her Mother complaining about the usual—her career being too dangerous and her cutting her hair that was once mid-back length.
"I just don't understand," The pixie cut, deep golden beauty shook her head. "Why'd you cut your hair?"
"Cause it's my hair." Akil responded as her cell tone alerts her of a text. She sat her fork down to turn and grab her phone out of her purse.
