Best laid plans never really work out, and my plans were not going to pan out either. It was about 2 am. In the morning, I had not seen the officer make a round in a few hours, I hit my button to get my door open to go to the bathroom, he didn’t […]
Chapter 8 Aged 15
This was also during the time of the Crack Cocaine epidemic; you could find crack on any corner in the Southwest Detroit area and Ecorse. And at high school we had a lot of gang members and dealers, at some point I became a target for one of the gangs as an easy mark. […]
St. Francis home for boys
Chapter 6 Age 12 to Almost 13
I’m not sure how long it was before I woke up again, but when I did, it was to this guy pulling my pants down, I was on my back and he just got my feet out of my pants legs. He started to climb up into the bed and was touching my legs. I […]
Chapter 3
We left the children’s psych hospital, I had no idea which way was home, I was just happy to be in the car with my dad, about 25 minutes into the drive I noticed that we were in some very bad neighborhoods, very run-down areas. I saw the welcome to Detroit sign, at this […]
Chapter 2 age 6 to almost 8
This part of my life was very difficult to deal with, a lot of things happened in this time period, that would define the next 22 years of my life. Around 6 years old, my dad started going out on my mom, with a family friend, her name was Cathy. My dad would make excuses […]
Chapter 1 Till 6 year’s old
I was born in 1970, my mother was 16 years old, and my dad was 19 when I was born, I was created on my mom’s 16th birthday in a car at a drive-in movie theatre. My father was a steel mill worker, and my mother dropped out of high school when she found out […]
Preface
In the depths of a story that spans decades, we meet a young boy just seven years old, whose life was about to take a devastating turn. His voice though steady now carries the weight of years spent behind bars, each word measured with the wisdom that only comes from profound transformation. Picture if you […]