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by D. Watkins a memoir about growing up as a Black boy in East Baltimore, hardened because Black boys and men are taught that to show pain or feelings is weakness i love the way in which Watkins writes - casual and colloquial, able to draw his audience in, vividly paints a picture one with a happy ending -- Watkins has a family (this book is dedicated to his baby daughter) and is working on his healing journey tw for just about everything, especially sexual assault, murder, drugs