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Table of Contents
Chapter Two - Everyday Struggle
Chapter Three - No Place Like Home
Chapter Four - A Drug Dealer’s Dream
Chapter Six - Love Me Or Leave Me
Chapter Ten - Armed and Dangerous
Chapter Eleven - Real Niggas Do Real Things
Chapter Twelve - A Gangster’s Gambit
Chapter Thirteen - Love’s Blind
Chapter Fourteen - Geting a Rep…
Chapter Fifteen - To The Victor, The Spoils
Chapter Sixteen - Dealing with haters…
Chapter Seventeen - Risking It All… Blowin’ The Spot
Chapter Eighteen - Can’t Stop It
Chapter Nineteen - Living Lavish
Chapter Twenty - Messin’ With The Devil
Chapter Twenty One - Living It
Chapter Twenty Two - Gotcha Open
Chapter Twenty-Three - Been About Money
Chapter Twenty-Four - The One I Trusted
Chapter Twenty-Five - Mo Money Mo…
Chapter Twenty Six - Dead Right
Chapter Twenty-Seven - My Love Is Strong
Chapter Twenty-Eight - Get Up… Stand up
Chapter Twenty-Nine - World’s Getting Darker
Chapter Thirty - The Past… The Present… The Future...
No man of woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny. -Homer, Iliad, VI
Acknowledgements
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Jeanne Lee Moultrie
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prologue
In New York City’s most northern borough of the Bronx, lies the second biggest Housing project in the city, the infamous Edenwald Houses. Its brownish-red brick buildings stand out ominously like an eyesore against the urban landscape. The enormous project buildings can be seen from near and far. Just like its