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more than a year behind •. "He never even went to court
on it ·-he went to jail." says Angela. "I feel terrible. We
couldn't afford a law~·cr.''
y the time Glen got to high
school, he was a big, handsome
boy, six feet three inches and nearly
two hundred pounds, but his future
would not be made in school.
He was only m&rginally literate, and
was held back a year and placed in
special-education classes. He dropped
out in 1984, just months before graduation.
His prospects for advancing
beyond the life his father had known
were dim, and grew dimmer when he
and his girlfriend, Dennetta, had a baby. Now there was
pressure to bring in money, but most of the jobs open to
him were low-paying and unsteady. He and Dennetta separated,
he had a second -child with another woman, and the
pressures grew.
He worked when he could, and he hung ou~, drinking
"eightb{llls"-forty-ounce bottles of Olde· English 800, the
beverage of choice in his neighborhood. He avoide