Surviving West Side With You (Urban)
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Sometimes you can have it all and still want more, sometimes we have it all and not know it. Siblings Amina, Asad and Asim Maalik seemed to have it all. Though things were rough growing up on the west side of Baltimore, they always had each other and their strict loving parents. One impulsive decision from Asad sends their lives into a cyclone of drugs, guns, fast money and tragedy. Secrets and lies will be uncovered as they find out who they truly are. Follow the Maalik siblings in their coming of age. Will they survive the west side together?
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