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Inmates plead with kids: Do as I say, not as I did
Book about choices earns rave reviews
October 13, 2007
Daily Journal Online
Donna Hickman, reporter

"When he was 8 years old, he would grab an old tennis racquet and hold it as he would a guitar, pretending to play. Eventually, his dad bought him a guitar and the little boy taught himself to play it. He dreamed of being a musician. His mother died and his father, whom he describes as a "functional alcoholic," got busy making a living to take care of his family. His son found friendships and heroes among the wrong crowd. By the time he became a teenager, his dream derailed. He chose drugs and sold the guitar to pay for them.

He would return to his music again, though, as a prisoner on Missouri's Death Row."

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