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	The Homeboy Songs 4.72 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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In the summer of 1980, Bob Lashley, the most visible man in Puget Sound black business at the time, decided to freebase cocaine to process a traumatic discrimination settlement. Four cyclical years of abuse, apologies, and binges later, my mother left the house for the YWCA women’s s

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