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RANDY PERDUE

I want to point out something before I tell the
rest of this story. Statistically, a boy that grows
up without a father has a lot of disadvantages,
and unfortunately, many become “‘juvenile
delinquents.” That label is offensive to me.
Even though I was well on my way to fulfilling
that role, I had many Godly men in my family
and in my community who set the right
example. Labeling a kid has deep emotional and
psychological ramifications. We should always
tell our youth that they have boundless and
genius potential.

My self-esteem was greatly suffering because I
was failing in so many other areas. I am so
thankful that the drug Ritalin was not on the
market because the school faculty would have
had me on it within the first week of the 1st
grade. I'll discuss the insanity of our public-
school system in a later chapter. By the age of
fourteen, the only other thing that really had my
full interest was….well, you may have guessed
it, "girls." My problem was that my reputation
prevented a lot of dads from allowing their
precious daughters to associate with me. And
then it happened, I met Debbie, a girl who
moved to West Virginia from Ohio.

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