RAN. There was a bullet in me trying to take my life, all 13 years of it . . . “

When James B. O’Neal read those opening lines from a novel, he was an eighth-grade boy bound eventually for Harvard Law School, growing up in a very different environment than that of the book’s hero: a roughneck called Sonny, a sort of urban Huck Finn who grudgingly wised up and accepted help to escape the streets of Harlem in the bad old days.

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