I was motivated to write because of my wife's encouragement, as she thought that I had a life story worth telling. I was born into a typical middle class home on the outskirts of Kingston Jamaica. Jamaica was still under British Colonial rule, a very happy and safe place for a young boy to grow up in the loving home of my grandmother's. However because of my family being of mixed racial background ceatain intolerance and un-acceptance did exist, because of skin color. Even though I was well cared for by my three aunts after my grandmother died, my life would never be like other clildren who more...