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by James Laray Soil (Author)
James Soil affectionately calls his mother, June, and Aunt Louise's in-house hair salon the "gangsta beauty shop." However, when his mother and Aunt Louise are arrested in a surprise drug raid, James quickly learns that the gangsta beauty shop is a mere facade. The so-called hustlers and players getting their Perms and Finger-waves done are drug dealers and abusers. The cigarettes with the unusual smell and the "white stuff" they were crushing up on the coffee table, and sniffing up their noses are drugs. Even more damning, James learns his mother and aunt are having sex with a family doctor to support their prescription pill habits.As a young adulthood, in the early eighties a new drug would emerge, called "Crack Cocaine" and take the inner-cities across America into total destruction, including James, causing him to have to battle with his own inner demons including crack-cocaine. When he gets arrested for possession of crack-cocaine, James is sentenced to six months in the Los Angeles County Jail where he makes a vow to himself not to become just another drug or criminal statistic to live in die on the streets of LA.James walks out of the County Jail where two of his childhood friends are waiting on him. They convince him to enroll at West Los Angeles Junior College where his youthful love for football is reignited. James is determined to right his wrongs and prove to himself, his family and his friends that he is a survivor.
