The First Step: Hi’ Steppin’

This is the only book in which Al Lucas dutifully creates an autobiography that even remotes cares for facts. Here we have Paul Undres hanging out in the lobby of James A. Haley VA hospital seeking shelter from the bad things he was doing, namely smoking crack and drinking too much. He under goes treatment and is sent off to rehab center, but not before he tries his drugs one more time. It is from a transition house to Avon Park dual diagnosis center that he finally accepts his alcoholism and drug addiction, yet finds that is not enough. There is more to life than simple clean time. How much more is the question.

The high school photo reveals an author in deep denial of which a whole book has been written. He asks how definitive must a man be to tell a story of reasonable conjecture from a viewpoint of a victim? He finds himself in eerily  similar circumstances as that of his protagonist i.e. Tampa, the hood, AA, etc.

Whatever can be said, consider it said.