Redemption ( Chapter One)
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"Life is a test
It will break you or drive you
Into the ground
In the game of survival."
Growing up in the Bronx was never easy for Talia Rose or as the streets knew her as " Tommie". With a mother who never seemed to care till her death and a father who fell into the arms of oppression before she even got the chance to establish a relationship with him. Tommie has always been on her own doing what she has to do to survive , all she find all she keep. The summer of 1977' will make or break Tommie, what happens when she finds love in the Bronx, something shes never knew to even exist. Will she fall into the oppression of the Bronx like her father or will she survive and conquer? Guess we will see.
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