The concept of my book started back in 2002 and then through the years morphed into what it has become today, a glimpse into my past and the people and the environment that have molded me as an "adult." At first I wanted to just recount my growing up in a certain place in a certain time that does not exist anymore. My thoughts about that time, Brooklyn, New York, actually the Brownsville section, from 1942 to 1955, that realization dawned on me when I was living in Biloxi, Mississippi in 2001. That's when I started to see similarities of growing up in a small town, Biloxi, and growing up in...