A Spiritual Conversation (ePub)

Well as you know by now my birth and earthy name is John Lesley Dee born May 5 1957 in a small town named Gastonia North Carolina born in an All black hospital. Born to parents named Charley I. Dee and Ester L. Nickols and I am a brother to 3 brother and 2 sisters and we are grew up very close. Growing up in the south, like most, my family grew crops for food, we call them garden and all of the kids worked on the garden. We also cut woods and brought in coal for heat and cooking. My father works for the railroad and my mother raised the kids. In our little community, it was an all black community where all the kids knew each other and mothers and fathers all raised the kids. Every mother and father in Bradford Heights they all knew and trusted each other. All kids in Bradford height all went to an all black elementary school. At recess we all swam on a little creek behind the school. It's funny now I always wondered how we always got caught but I now I know it was because the water turned us ashy. Some people know what I mean because they have to use grease or lotion to get the ash off. After elementary school I went to Virginia Grier Junior High, this was the first time I had I ever went to school with kids of other races. As you can imagine, it was an eye opening experience. We talked, walked and seeing things differently than our counterparts. I had a lot of first experiences there. My first student teacher crush, my first real girlfriend, and played on my first real football team. To my surprise, I was very good at it. Football became my first great passion. This was a time in my life, that I had a lot of different opportunities from school dances to assembly and a civic class. We also won my first championship. Those were wonderful years. Then I went Ashbrook High school, home of the Greenwaves. As I looked back, these some of the best days and years of my life. That's when I met kid's mother, Tina. My first son was born then life became real. After school I

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