“I gave him the most love...So he was my biggest disappointment.” states LaJoe Rivers, Terrence’s mother. At the arrival of younger siblings,

Terrence feels that he is losing his mother. His inability to adjust to his growing family leads Terrence to another kind of family, one that would replace the love that he feels he has lost, a gang. This decision, a result of his own unwillingness to change, ironically is the decision that changes his life. The gangs at first give Terrence the sense of belonging that he craves, but he soon withdraws from them. Although his family welcomes him with open arms, Terrence is not able to maintain any sort of long term arrangement with his family and because of this, he becomes further estranged. His inability to adjust to life with his new siblings, and then to his life as a drug dealer and gang member along with his inability to bounce back from set-backs leads Terrence to a courthouse, and, inevitably, jail.

Both Craig Davis and Terrence Rivers grew up in a less

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