<b><i>The idea to write to you was not an easy one.</i></b><br> <b><i>The scar from where the bullet entered my back is still there.</i></b><br> <i> </i><br> Jerry McGill was thirteen years old, walking home through the projects of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, when he was shot in the back by a stranger. Jerry survived, wheelchair-bound for life; his assailant was never caught. Thirty years later, Jerry wants to say something to the man who shot him.<br> <br> <b><i>I have decided to give you a name.</i></b><br> <b><i>I am going to call you Marcus.</i></b><br> <i> </i><br> With profound grace, brutal honesty, and devastating humor, Jerry McGill takes us on a dramatic and inspiring journey—from the streets of 1980s New York, where poverty and violence were part of growing up, to the challenges of living with a disability and learning to help and inspire others, to the long, difficult road to acceptance, forgiveness, and, ultimately, triumph.<br> <br> <b><i>I didn’t write this book for you, Marcus. I wrote this for those who endure.</i></b><br> <b><i>Those who manage. Those who are determined to move on.</i></b>