A book of laws. Not just a life.This is not a story about everything that happened to me. This is a book about the rules I learned in the absence.Laws that were written in hallways, in silence, in whoopings, in empty chairs, in relationships, in prisons, in marriages, in fatherhood, in businesses, and in the mirror.Boy struck through. Man written over it. You can still read the boy. You are supposed to.If you are a man trying to understand why love feels like work, why you leave first, why you numb instead of feel, why you provide but still do not feel close, this book is for you.If you are a woman who loves a man like this, this book will help you see what he never learned how to say.These are the laws. They are not here to excuse you. They are here to set you free.