The Projects
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Domingo has learned one thing very well. He doesn’t want to be poor. Life in the low-income Projects is draining the life from him. Hunger is gnawing at his belly. Not just the hunger for food, but the hunger for life. He’s surrounded by brown and black families that are in the same situation that he is. Many people in the Projects turn to crime as a way to live. Selling drugs or selling yourself is the most lucrative employment available. Few people get out of the Projects, many succumb to its ever, present danger. Domingo is small in stature, at 5’4” and 130 pounds he’s a lightweight. He’s light-skinned with short straight black hair that’s always neatly combed. His oval face possesses features that are attractive to the young girls in the Projects. He has an easy manner with the girls, stands apart from the boys. He is quiet by nature and that hides the intensity that burns within him. He grinds his cigarette under his boot heel, then heads east through the park. An hour’s walk brings him to his neighborhood. He walks up the three flights of stairs, enters his apartment unit and joins the chaos that is his home.
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Good or evil, poverty or the chance to break free from the binds of The Projects. Does love of family outweigh all other considerations? Heads or tails? These are the paradoxes of life. None of us have any control over where or to whom we are born. One boy’s journey through life shows both good and evil. The summer of 1953 finds young Domingo Lopez of The Projects in Hartford, Connecticut at a crossroads in his life. Does he accept the oppressive life he’s been born into or does he forge a new path? One that will provide physical and financial security for his mother and sisters but holds the potential to rob him of his soul? Back at home Domingo heard his mother’s worried voice, “Where do you get the money Domingo?”