Lesra martin biography of rory gilmore
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{ The Journey }
Faces Behind the Windows: Life in the Inner City
Childhood dreams didn&#;t exist in Lesra Martin&#;s world, a place where day to day survival was a grim reality.
Lesra martin biography of rory gilmore
Born in , he was the second eldest son out of Earl and Alma Martin&#;s eight children. Although the family was poor, his parents managed to instill in him a sense of responsibility and hard work.
But his father&#;s ill health, his parents&#; drinking problems, and a series of family misfortunes eventually pushed the Martins from a comfortable, middle class life in Queens on to welfare, and the dangerous, nightmare streets of Bushwick.
By age 10, Lesra&#;s family depended on his job bagging groceries to buy food.
At 11, the malnourished kid with the toothy, ragged grin was working in a bar, sweeping floors and saving his tips to buy extra rice and beans for his siblings. Life was a relentless day-to-day struggle, a balance between hope and despair. Gang life literally consumed Lesra&#;s oldest brother