This is a true story of my encounter with the depths of drug and alcohol addiction. The highlight of my addiction was crack cocaine. This story depicts the finale of the high having moved from my hometown in Seattle to San Francisco, California. The kinds of people, the struggle affording such an addiction, and the sexual, mental, and medical problems that plagued me throughout the addiction along with the horrible loss of hygiene care, which also accounts for lost selfesteem, and all that I encountered leading me to finally give it my all in quittingwith no threats of ever going back to a world I knew I had not only lost very early in the addiction process but also now hate.

Life after having accepted the challenge to surrender the nightmare of addiction found the stage now set for the work of what I will call the first day of a new construction worker's position in the building process of a new empire. Such began the laying of the foundation for this new life with the acceptance now of the many changes and its process to be taken through in finally seeing and relishing the joy of a new life free of "yesterday". The work involved I hope can be felt in this second book as well as the joy felt with me in achieving the rewards making up the architecture of my new empire for life after all the hard worthless and cold nightmare of addiction. I do hope such is conveyed to those wanting to endure another story of success from the hardship of addiction so many encounter.

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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.