a heartrending but uplifting story of the human spirits ability to prevailfrom the day he is fiveyearsold and dropped off at his foster home of the next eleven years stephen is mentally and physically tortured no one in the system can help him no one can tell him if he has a family no one can tell him why with obvious africanamerican features he has the last name of klakowiczalong the way a single faint light comes only from a neighbors small acts of kindness and caringand a box of books from one of those books he learns that he has to fight in any way he canfor victory is in the battle his victory is to excel in schoolagainst all odds the author succeeded he attended college graduated became a successful corporate executive and married a wonderful woman with whom he established a loving family of his own through it he dug voraciously through records and files and found his history his birth familyand the ultimate disappointment as some family members embrace him but others reject himreaders wont be the same after reading this powerful story they will share in the hurts and despair but also in the triumph against daunting obstacles they will share this story with their family with their friends with their neighbors