Encouraged by my mom, I’ve regularly kept a diary since my twenties, and my entries about Jorell Cleveland greatly informed my new book Little Brother: Love, Tragedy and My Search For the Truth. The book is about our relationship and my investigation into his murder, and without my old diaries I’d have largely forgotten those early outings after being paired by the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, including a trip to Chicago and the time he came to stay with my then-girlfriend Anna and me in Hoboken.
Hey Ben, you may not see this due to the age of the article, but I'd love to read more of these. Love the STL perspective in your writing.