This is a true story and a page turner. This story will keep you on the edge of your seat. Bill, the first Black man in Missouri, openly dated a white woman during a racially explosive time. At the age of eighteen, he fell in love with a twenty-six year old white woman-it changed his life forever This memoir presents a striking example of man's inhumanity to man, including the misuse of the law to impose undo punishment because of racist objectives. You will laugh and you will cry while taking this journey back in time with the author.