Thanx for your input .

It isn't easy .

One of our boys came from and was oh so proud to be from 18th street in L.A., they made sure he never forgot and didn't waste much time on schooling, taking baths or anything else that might have moved him ahead .

When he left us at age 18 he moved into an 18th street gang apartment complex and got his G.F. pregnant, the following year his "homies" broke down his door and shot him to death in front of his lady and baby .

He was able to crawl to a window and get out, died on the sidewalk .

I tried so hard to explain to him this was the path he was choosing but he never grasped the idea of a decent life .

Sadly I have many such stories .

Most of the kids I was incarcerated with n the 1960's, are now dead, mostly because they flat refused to even try .

We're coming to the end of a short Desert vacation, the boys came back from the pool slightly after mid day, some mother threw her 4 year old boy into the pool after he said he was afraid if the water, he puked and they had to close and clean the entire HUGE 184,000 gallon pool.....

Life goes on .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better