Growing up Gangster
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Last published Thu, Jun 18, 2015
Sixteen year old Sydney Hawkings finds that life isn't all its cracked up to be when she's adopted by a black couple living in the nearby ghetto. She's dragged into the life of a gangster and into a life of crime when her knight in a shining suite shows up, can he make her change? Or will he follow her life of crime?
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