Daryl Nelson is a contributing writer for TheDrop.FM. He has written for ConsumerAffairs.com, Readers Digest, Polymagazine, The Urban Post, Impose Magazine, Crumbs for Men Magazine and a number of other publications. Nelson was born in New York, raised in Connecticut and attended Virginia State University.
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