CHERISHED IN THE BYWAYS

<div class=Section1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thisbook Cherished in the Byways is intended to inspire poor and abused youngpeople to succeed even if support from family is not available.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Ihave written about an experience: As a young African-American--one of elevenchildren whose father never earned more that fifty-five dollars in any week Iarrived at </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Chicago</span></st1:place></st1:City><spanstyle='font-size:11.0pt'>'s Union Station with a duffel bag containingeverything I owned in this world and twenty-eight dollars in cash. I knew noone in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Chicago</span></st1:place></st1:City><spanstyle='font-size:11.0pt'> and I had no relatives in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Chicago</span></st1:place></st1:City><spanstyle='font-size:11.0pt'>. Twelve years later I had a Bachelor of ScienceDegree in Biology and a Doctorate in Medicine. I am now a board-certifiedpediatrician.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Ihave written of this experience with some degree of creativity and I havewritten it with humor. This manuscript contains about 80000 words. Thismanuscript is not a simple chronology of events; in the manuscript I usepoetry prose and cultural perspective to weave a very entertaining andencouraging read.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Myaudience for my manuscript ranges from high school through young adulthoodespecially those needing encouragement to persist in seeking goals when thereis not much parental support. However even older adults can surely deriveencouragement and entertainment from reading my book.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Ihad not told anyone that I wanted to become a doctor; from a black derelictthat would sound ridiculous!</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Iarrived in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Chicago</span></st1:place></st1:City><spanstyle='font-size:11.0pt'> with all I owned in a duffel bag... <spanclass=GramE>I<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>had</span> no relatives in</span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Chicago</span></st1:place></st1:City><spanstyle='font-size:11.0pt'> I knew no one in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Chicago</span></st1:place></st1:City><spanstyle='font-size:11.0pt'>.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Inthe YMCA on </span><st1:Street><st1:address><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Wabash Avenue</span></st1:address></st1:Street><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> Icounted <span class=GramE>my<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>meager</span>funds:<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>a twenty dollar bill and an emptyViceroy cigarette pack filled with nickels <span class=SpellE>dimesand</span>quarters <span class=SpellE>totalling</span> about eight dollars. So I had atotal of twenty-eight dollar upon which to build a new life.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>12years later on </span><st1:date Year=1971 Day=7 Month=6><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>JUNE 7th 1971</span></st1:date><spanstyle='font-size:11.0pt'> a ten <span class=GramE>year<spanstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>old</span> boy in my hometown </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Mobile</span></st1:place></st1:City><spanstyle='font-size:11.0pt'> delivered a newspaper T