let me tell you a story alone in a city built on dreams a silent battle is
being fought it's in all of us there are moments that will define us there are
voices that will go on her a cycle will be broken take a look around you
every 13 seconds a child is being abused approximately one in six boys is
sexually abused before the age of 16 how can we fight what we do not know or
refuse to see hiding in plain sight in virtually every community where the
unspeakable and unimaginable happens to children sexual abuse is common under
reported under recognized and under treated silence about this type of
abuse is very common my name is Antonio Brown and this is my story
I wanted to understand or make sense of what happened in my childhood as I
matured and transitioned into adulthood there were unanswered questions from my
past but not only did I want to help myself but I also wanted to help others
that may have gone through these similar experiences and shared these same
unanswered questions
so many times as a child I wish that I had someone to talk to about what I was
going through but there was no one that just was no one there I often wished that
there was a book that I could pick up and read that could address these issues in
the end I didn't want to feel like I was alone and I don't want anyone else to
feel like they're alone
it's what I call the cycle a lineage of family dysfunction conceived of
unaddressed issues whether these issues consist of abuse molestation and or
insecurities all of which stem from the lack of communication within a family
that if talked about could break this cycle instead we choose to harbor these
issues within ourselves and we pass them down from generation to generation
am I saying all the answers to these questions are found within this book
no but what I am saying is that this book will help get the conversation
started the sooner we can begin talking about it the sooner we can break the
cycle of silence
and every day I see the news all the problems that we could solve them in a
situation rises just writing into an album singing straight to go but I don't
really like my flow no so tell me what you want to hear something that life
don't need this I'm gonna give oh
