![]() ![]() It came from concrete (to breathe the fresh air) It learned how to walk without havin feet (to breathe the fresh air) Long live the rose that grew from concrete Provin nature's laws wrong it learned how to walk without havin feet It learned how to walk without havin feetĭid you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Y'knowhahatImean unbelievable lifestyle they gave me That's what they should say, y'knowhatImean?Īll the trouble to survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty Just be like, "DAMN! He grew out of that? He came out of that?" Instead of sayin, "Damn, he did this, he did this," Same thing with me, y'knahmean? I grew out of all of this You gon' be like, "Damn! A rose grew from the concrete?!" Scratches and marks, you not gon' say, "Damn, look atĪll the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from concrete" If it GROW, and the and the rose petal got all kind of You try to plant somethin in the conrete, y'knowhatImean? ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ryan isn’t her real last name – it was the one assigned to her by second grade teacher so her students could participate in a penpal program with a group of kids in a small town in England. ![]() Luca, stricken with panic disorder, needs all the help and support Doctor Maxwell can afford to keep her spiraling thoughts from escalating.Īt her father’s apartment – among the various artifacts of his life – she finds a brand-new letter addressed to Luca Ryan. ![]() With the encouragement of her psychiatrist, Luca Vinetti has travelled to Manhattan in order to clean out her father’s apartment after avoiding doing so for a full year. Which is too bad, because I definitely think parts of it are worth a read, and the style of writing is excellent. Dirty Letters works as a good romance and a good character study, but had some annoying flaws that kept it far away from the higher grades. ![]() ![]() ![]() At age seventeen, while in his senior year of high school, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and Uris enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. Uris attended schools in Norfolk, Virginia and Baltimore, but never graduated from high school, after having failed English three times. He derived his surname from Yerushalmi, meaning "man of Jerusalem." (His brother Aron, Leon Uris' uncle, took the name Yerushalmi) "He was basically a failure," Uris later said of his father. William spent a year in Palestine after World War I before entering the United States. His father, a Polish-born immigrant, was a paperhanger, then a storekeeper. Leon Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Jewish-American parents Wolf William and Anna (Blumberg) Uris. ![]() His two bestselling books were Exodus, published in 1958, and Trinity, in 1976. Leon Marcus Uris (AugJune 21, 2003) was an American novelist, known for his historical fiction and the deep research that went into his novels. ![]() |