When We Were Boys, Book II

By: Michael B. Blacc, Be Black Publishing LLC

Narrated by: Michael B. Blacc

This story is inspired by true events based on the life of Michael B. Blacc (as Kamar Washington) and T.N.M. (as Joaquin Parker). T.N.M. is the real life beloved friend of Michael B. Blacc.

When We Were Boys, Book II heavily concentrates on the life of Michael B. Blacc.

Aunt Emilia calls Kamar to reveal shocking news as he is battling his murky past. He has to face the atrociousness of the days gone by to find solace in his present ones. When We Were Boys, Book II starts with Young Kamar being separated from his mentally ill guardian, supposedly for his own good. But even after that, Kamar has yet to know what “good” seems like. He has yet to know what a real and loving family feels like — because all he knew was a dysfunctional and nightmarish one. The one that just might shove you in front of a moving vehicle then leave you for dead.

What Kamar’s dysfunctional family did to him will reappear as trials and tribulations in his young adult years, in his relationships, and the hollowness he feels inside of him despite being surrounded by a horde of people. This hollowness remains even when his abusers see a fatal end. It stays even when he manages to forgive one of them in his own peculiar and unorthodox way.

Things would have been different if it were strangers who perpetrated the kind of vile and sadistic objectification that Kamar experienced. But when the perpetrators are supposed to be your family, people with whom you share a home with, things can get pretty edgy. No matter how far you go, family follows. Unless, you get one on one closure. And so a final encounter was due.

Meeting with his perpetrators face to face will demand Kamar to muster enough courage to lay himself bare to the reality of what happened to him. How does Kamar come out of this meeting that is bound to be intensely confrontational with everyone on the edge?

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