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At age 15, while others were entering high school and making the necessary strides toward adulthood, I was taking steps backward which ultimately lead to me falling into the hands of law enforcement. However, it wasn’t until several years later when my best friend received a 35-year prison sentence that I realized my life was critically weighing in the balance, headed toward destruction in need of serious change.

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Sullivan, P. (2017). Slim Chances. In: Economic Inequality, Neoliberalism, and the American Community College. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44284-6_13

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