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Stand By Your Woman; Michael Datcher Pursued Different Paths To Manhood. One Day, He Took the Right One
2001
Overview
That was five years ago, and now [Michael Datcher], 33, has a book deal and is married to that soul mate he once saw only in his dreams. His new memoir, \"Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story,\" is a blues journey through adolescent experimentation with sex and the grappling of a young adult with promiscuity, faith in God and overt and subtle racism. The product of a rape, he had been given away by his mother and adopted into a loving single-parent home. Still, Datcher knows it would have been easier with two people carrying the load. Datcher's story could be a case study. The first time he saw a live-in father was as a sixth-grader in a magnet school in an exclusive Long Beach neighborhood. As he was preparing to enter high school, Datcher's mother moved the family to suburban Cerritos, about 30 minutes from Long Beach, to get her growing son away from inner- city ills. Tough is opening yourself to criticism. And tough can also be proposing to your woman in a poem in front of friends and associates from his Crenshaw Boulevard neighborhood in South Los Angeles. That's what Datcher did four years ago, wetting the eyes of associates, and successfully making his then-girlfriend [Adams] feel special.
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WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post
