Larry was raised by a single working mother as a mixed-race child in one of the worst neighborhoods in Boston. He suffered from an abusive home, poverty and the ire of a city wracked by racial turbulence in the 1970s. He would rise above this adversity to become an accomplished student, a foreign exchange scholarship recipient, a husband, a father, college graduate, and a military officer, all by the age of twenty-three. This fictional biography is the detailed story of his first twenty-three years of his life, analyzing and describing both the trials and the tribulations of what is truly an inspiring life story.