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    Just One Chance: 1, #2
    Just One Chance: 1, #2
    Just One Chance: 1, #2
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    Just One Chance: 1, #2

    By myron portley

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    Raised in a city of high crime and desparate poverty, Chance has a choice to become part of the city's increasing drug/crime problem or to reach for his dream that only he can see or understand.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publishermyron portley
    Release dateNov 28, 2017
    ISBN9781386144885
    Just One Chance: 1, #2

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      Just One Chance - myron portley

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to my parents Maron and Mae P. Portley and Grandmother CinClara Cooper Portley who gave me a strong foundation to face life storms.

      Acknowledgements

      Chapter 1.

      CHANCE

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      Hey David I think I’m going to take my ass to the military, I aint doing nothing out here. David’s my favorite cousin and the one with the most sense. I know if anybody is going to support me it’s going to be him.  "you serious he asks.

      yeah, I already took the pre - entrance test and qualified.

      He stares at me hard, finally he says "Well I think it’s a good move but what made you think of that, Uncle? Naw it’s just I was looking in the Newspaper for a job that pays good and everybody that pays wants you to have a skill plus 2-3 years’ experience. How the hell do you get that? Even with a degree I still don’t have either one! We both just bust out laughing.

      That’s what I like about David no matter how serious the conversation may be we still end up laughing. Hell if you can’t laugh at your pain what is there to laugh at. I tell him I take the official test Saturday and I’ll let him know what happens. We talk about other things for a few minutes then I tell him

      Hey D. I’m out I gotta hit Princess up and tell her what’s up. Aright talk to you later.

      I jump in my Nova and head over to Princess house. Princess is my ex-girlfriend; we just broke up a couple of months ago. She said it was because of my temper, but I say it’s because her ex-boyfriend got out of prison. Also at issue is that I was told about this boyfriend in prison four days before he was due to get out. All things considered we’re still good friends but I’m determined to be a success in the navy to show her that she made a mistake by leaving me. As I’m driving on baseline to Rialto I’m thinking Princess is going to be happy for me cause she’s wanted me out of these streets for a while. As I pull up to her parents’ house I see her boyfriend leaving, we stare each other down and I’m thinking this is one of the reasons why I need to leave cause this situation with him is going to end badly for both of us, like one of us dead and the other in prison and I know it would hurt a lot people if I went to prison. See I was raised in the hood, but my parents and grandmother didn’t raise us with a hood mentality, not to say I

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