Book excerpt: These are the life and times of Lionel Ricardo Barrow II. If it were up to me, I would have been dead on May 20, 2003. All I broke was my left elbow and right femur. The Lord still kept me alive and I kept writing. There were still things I needed to do and that is how I see it. Then my nephew stood me up and I get into a car accident that was not my fault at 3 AM on October 28, 2018 when I was two exits away from home. I broke my left leg and right ankle. The Lord still kept me alive and then I wrote this memoir. Even still, there is a lot more to the story. I am a doomed cat from the start that should have not been born and this is a manual on when not to have kids.