Nobody's Boy / Doran, Sandra Finley / (PB/1982-1982/B/USED)

*Condition Note: Pages are yellow and book is well used, but this book is still sturdy and clean.*

I was a shadow, the silent child, never spoken to or touched except in anger. No hello. No goodbye. No "I love you" "Bad seed," said my mother. I was Nobody's Boy.
We moved more than 100 times before I was in my teens. We kids sometimes ate chicken feed, or chewed tar from telephone poles. But I bore the brunt. One summer my six siblings all got gifts. Not me. Not a trinket. I was Nobody.
First Mom disappeared then Dad, sot the State of California gave me a number 10114. "Who would want to adopt you?" they said. I learned to hide the tears, the vulnerable child, beneath my warrior mask. Then my parents reappeared and jerked us kids back into a lower hell.
There were glimmers of hope. A class for the gifted. Straight A's. An honor student. But who cared? My dad's parting words: "You'll never be able to hold a job and make a living."
Even as a successful teacher, I was the hollow man. There was no way on earth for heaven to reach me, even if God Himself appeared in the sky. Or so I thought...

Miles To Go
Hell's Kitchen
Harlem
Brooklyn and Back
Coney Island Behind
New London and West
Mare Island and Holding
San Diego and Onward
New England to Stay
New Life at 33
No Key To Easy Street
One-time Altar Boy
A Family United
Build Your Own Dynasty
Sum of the Parts
Happiness

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