ASIN: B07199W3P3
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 103
While safety and peace seem like they should be birthrights, some of us are born into situations that simply don't allow for these niceties. With a father who sold drugs and a mother who depended on them, the world felt anything but calm to author Matthew Chase. Growing up in one of the toughest parts of Philadelphia, Matthew learned things in his first few years of life that most of us never have to learn, like how to survive hunger when there's no food in the house and no one there to notice. . .how not to cry or show fear while being beat with a shoe by a foster parent. . .how to mask any signs of vulnerability when passing the dealers and gangsters on the street. . . or how to fight when one or a bunch of kids jump you on your way home from school. Somehow, Matthew knew he had a choice. He could conform to the status quo and become a victim of the mentality generated by this ...
