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This novel chronicles the life of a young boy from the mean yet turbulent streets of Cleveland, Ohio beginning in the 1940s that visits his family in the deep south of Arkansas during the Jim Crow Era. It is here that he that becomes entangled in a series of youthful indiscretions that eventually land him in juvenile detention. Clearly this path turns into an unbelievable chain of events that lead him into a world of drugs, deception, and danger as an adult which ends in murder and incarceration in the Kentucky State Prison in the 1980s. The tale makes the reader wonder could this account be actually true while based on real life events.

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Dr. Terry A. Echols is a former US Air Force veteran, college administrator, professor, national presenter, college/ high school basketball coach, and expert of minority male mentoring techniques in higher education. He is from the inner city of Cleveland, Oh where he grew up in housing projects near the downtown area of the city that he credits as part of his formative educational journey. He insists that his Doctorate of Education (EdD) allows him to give back to the community in which he was reared and stresses the importance of education because in the end he states that success looks different to each and every individual and thus individualized education will provide an opportunity for each of us to succeed in the area that we desire.

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