There Is An Urgency
Born into a world of horror, madness and chaos in 1973 to Debbie, a 23-year-old drug addicted prostitute and Howard, a 24-year-old addict and convict, Gregrhi Love grew up quickly with the Department of Children's Services becoming an active part of his life in 1974. With Howard in prison, the only father he knew as a child was Bobby, his mother’s pimp, drug dealer, and lover. In 1980, he was placed in his first foster home. While foster care was often horrifying, nothing compared to the daily near-death experiences he survived living in Father Panik Village with Bobby and Debbie. On May 23, 1980 his coerced testimony sent Debbie to prison.
Now a grown man, Mr. Love uses his childhood traumas to change lives. Working as a teacher allows him to use the experiences of his life to help children who live in a similar world. His experiences give him a perspective most people do not have and knowledge that cannot be obtained from any textbook. "There Is An Urgency" explores these experiences in an effort to make others aware that people like him walk among us every day.
"There Is An Urgency" is inimitable in that it juxtaposes Mr. Love’s experiences as an adult, working with children in school and juvenile detention settings, with personal accounts of physical and sexual abuse from his childhood. "There Is An Urgency" to share this story of hard won hope and resilience after years of terrifying abuse by a real life monster.
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There Is An Urgency
Born into a world of horror, madness and chaos in 1973 to Debbie, a 23-year-old drug addicted prostitute and Howard, a 24-year-old addict and convict, Gregrhi Love grew up quickly with the Department of Children's Services becoming an active part of his life in 1974. With Howard in prison, the only father he knew as a child was Bobby, his mother’s pimp, drug dealer, and lover. In 1980, he was placed in his first foster home. While foster care was often horrifying, nothing compared to the daily near-death experiences he survived living in Father Panik Village with Bobby and Debbie. On May 23, 1980 his coerced testimony sent Debbie to prison.
Now a grown man, Mr. Love uses his childhood traumas to change lives. Working as a teacher allows him to use the experiences of his life to help children who live in a similar world. His experiences give him a perspective most people do not have and knowledge that cannot be obtained from any textbook. "There Is An Urgency" explores these experiences in an effort to make others aware that people like him walk among us every day.
"There Is An Urgency" is inimitable in that it juxtaposes Mr. Love’s experiences as an adult, working with children in school and juvenile detention settings, with personal accounts of physical and sexual abuse from his childhood. "There Is An Urgency" to share this story of hard won hope and resilience after years of terrifying abuse by a real life monster.
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There Is An Urgency

There Is An Urgency

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There Is An Urgency

There Is An Urgency

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Overview

Born into a world of horror, madness and chaos in 1973 to Debbie, a 23-year-old drug addicted prostitute and Howard, a 24-year-old addict and convict, Gregrhi Love grew up quickly with the Department of Children's Services becoming an active part of his life in 1974. With Howard in prison, the only father he knew as a child was Bobby, his mother’s pimp, drug dealer, and lover. In 1980, he was placed in his first foster home. While foster care was often horrifying, nothing compared to the daily near-death experiences he survived living in Father Panik Village with Bobby and Debbie. On May 23, 1980 his coerced testimony sent Debbie to prison.
Now a grown man, Mr. Love uses his childhood traumas to change lives. Working as a teacher allows him to use the experiences of his life to help children who live in a similar world. His experiences give him a perspective most people do not have and knowledge that cannot be obtained from any textbook. "There Is An Urgency" explores these experiences in an effort to make others aware that people like him walk among us every day.
"There Is An Urgency" is inimitable in that it juxtaposes Mr. Love’s experiences as an adult, working with children in school and juvenile detention settings, with personal accounts of physical and sexual abuse from his childhood. "There Is An Urgency" to share this story of hard won hope and resilience after years of terrifying abuse by a real life monster.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940012246547
Publisher: Cwn Annwn Publishing
Publication date: 03/17/2009
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 382
File size: 233 KB

About the Author

After a series of misguided choices, missteps and false starts, Greg Love moved to Tennessee in 1995 to attend college and earn a degree in Art Education. Before attending his first class he had gotten a job as an assisted-living caregiver at a local non-profit. Mr. Love worked as a live-in caregiver, providing daily training in adaptive living skills and community involvement for a series of men diagnosed with a variety of disabilities while earning his undergraduate degree.
After earning his Bachelor’s degree in Special Education in 1999, he stayed on as a caregiver until he went to work as a teacher in the fall of 2000. He has been teaching ever since and becomes more passionate about it every day.
Mr. Love is currently living the quiet, normal life he always wanted in middle Tennessee.
And yes, he really does call his students "Sir" and "Ma'am" in real life as he does in this book.
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