Charles A. Carroll

Rest assured, after reading what happened to my brother and me at the hands of state officials, you’ll come away never trusting the “Powers that be” again with your loved ones without very careful scrutiny. Hence, here’s… WHY I WROTE MY BOOK ‘IF I WAS CONDEMNED TO LIVE AS LONG AS GOD, I’D NEVER FORGET IT, NEVER!’ When I set out to write HARD CANDY I wanted to believe in the system. I wanted to believe things had changed, and I wanted to believe the public myth that is doesn’t happen anymore. Had I learned it was otherwise, I would not have written this book, because with my story alone the reader would have come way concluding, oh, well, that was more than 40 years ago, it doesn’t happen anymore. Ladies and gentlemen, the evidence is clear. The atrocities are current, ongoing, and tragically appalling—a sour tasting elixir that injected iron in my backbone and sulfur into my blood—to be the voice for victims who, today, are still trembling behind closed doors awaiting redemption from their abusive reign of hell at the hands of trust civil servants. HARD CANDY is a human portrayal of an uncommon nature. No one thing contributes more to its value than its authenticity, but be forewarned, you will not find literary frills, polite language, soft corners of prose, soothing seams of dialogue, happy jingles, or joyful songs. You will find, however, a thread of love that weaves together the entire story—a story about a special devotion shared between my brother and me and how we care

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