TEN-YEAR-OLD Elijah Soto-Sims is rocking back and forth on a dining chair, fidgeting, giggling with his brother, eight-year-old Malik Soto-Sims. “Malik, stop making faces. You’re making him laugh,” his mother, Christal Sims, says. “It’s his birthday today, and they just had cake and ice cream and all the goodies,” she elaborates. Elijah’s playing with a […]
