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    612-822-4611

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From Adversity to Awareness

From Adversity to Awareness

Allen, Leroy M.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral Parenting

ISBN13: 9798905140389
Publisher: Imprint
Published: May 23 2026
Pages: 398
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Description

This powerful memoir chronicles the raw, deeply personal spiritual journey of Leroy M. Allen as he rises above the harsh realities of poverty, family fracture, and severe emotional rejection (pp. 1, 3, 10).

Born on a kitchen floor in South Baltimore in 1951, Allen carries the heavy label of being an unwanted child from his very first breath (pp. 9, 14-15). He navigates a strict family hierarchy where he sits at the bottom, learning to survive through street hustle, crabbing at the harbor, and salvaging what he can from the city dump (pp. 24, 29, 33). A definitive moment of childhood trauma occurs at age eight, when he is introduced to his biological father, Charles Walker, only to face immediate, cruel rejection (pp. 41-42).

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