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I was born in Queens in 1977 and raised in Brooklyn. I left New York at sixteen. Today I live in Florida with my wife, and I drive a truck for a living. I wrote Stay Down over years of late nights because my brother Melo told me our story deserved to be told.

It's for my brother Ruly, who loved every stray he ever found and didn't make it out. He was fourteen.

I didn't soften any of it. I wrote it the way I'd tell it to you across a table — plain and true. There's no big dramatic victory at the end. What I got was quieter and better: a steady home, a marriage, a son who never had to go to bed hungry. For where I came from, that's the whole win.

If you came up the way I did, you're not the only one.

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The audiobook version of Stay Down is officially available on Audible.

And yes, it’s narrated by yours truly.

There was something different about sitting down and actually telling this story out loud in my own voice. Some parts were harder to read than I expected, but I’m glad I did it.

If you’ve been waiting for the audiobook, it’s live now.

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"This was a very well written memoir about a man and his ability to rise up even when the world tried to keep him down.

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You took it by being willing to go further than the next person. By being the one who started it instead of waiting to see if it was going to start. So I became the one who started it. I was just a kid but I had made a calculation. The only way to stop getting hurt was to become the thing that hurt first.
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"A quick look into a personal struggle!

I live a good underdog story or just hearing about other’s lives. People can be so motivating and resilient. We can all learn so much from each other. This is a quick look at a families struggles and how those st" Read more of this review »
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This is a book that truly earns its title, Stay Down. At first, I assumed it would be about gang life and that "stay down" would reflect loyalty to the clique. Boy, was I wrong.

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“You'll help me kill Papa."

I was ten. My brother was eleven. This is a true story.”
― Angel Cordero, Stay Down: A Memoir of Brooklyn, Brotherhood, and Survival

“The only way to stop getting hurt was to become the thing that hurt first.”
― Angel Cordero, Stay Down: A Memoir of Brooklyn, Brotherhood, and Survival

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