if i tell you right up front right in the beginning that i lost him it will be easier for you to bear you will know its coming and it will hurt but youll be able to preparesomeone found him in a laundry basket at the quick wash wrapped in a towel a few hours old and close to death they called him baby moses when they shared his story on the ten oclock news the little baby left in a basket at a dingy laundromat born to a crack addict and expected to have all sorts of problems i imagined the crack baby moses having a giant crack that ran down his body like hed been broken at birth i knew that wasnt what the term meant but the image stuck in my mind maybe the fact that he was broken drew me to him from the startit all happened before i was born and by the time i met moses and my mom told me all about him the story was old news and nobody wanted anything to do with him people love babies even sick babies even crack babies but babies grow up to be kids and kids grow up to be teenagers nobody wants a messed up teenagerand moses was messed up moses was a law unto himself but he was also strange and exotic and beautiful to be with him would change my life in ways i could never have imagined maybe i should have stayed away maybe i should have listened my mother warned me even moses warned me but i didnt stay awayand so begins a story of pain and promise of heartache and healing of life and death a story of before and after of new beginnings and neverendings but most of alla love story