The person of your dreams stands before you, waiting with a pearl necklace, waiting for you to indulge. For a short time this person will offer euphoria, pleasure and bliss. When you're with them you couldn't be happier in this life. When you're not with them all you have is darkness, sadness and pain for you and those around you. Forever you will chase them, this dream person of yours. You'll find yourself offering money, property, even your life just to be with them and their pearls again. Just to be close to them, just to inhale their embrace as you decay together! As I grew from a boy to a man I fought an uphill battle through poverty, racism, as well as parents and relatives who suffered from the calamities of crack cocaine. Whether you call it crack, dope, rocks, hail, gravel or pearls; it all equals the same thing. A temporary arousing euphoria for them, pain and strife for us, their collateral damage! This is the journey, and the life, of one of America's forgotten children!
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