1. Lamont Peterson’s Hometown
When Lamont Peterson was an infant, his family moved from Memphis, TN, to Washington, D.C. He was brought up in the capital, but he grew up when he was just ten years young. That was the year his father went to prison. Not long after that, the Petersons lost their home. The third strike followed swiftly: mom split.
2. Abandoned
That left the kids to take care of themselves with no roof in a city where a hotel once boasted on its marquis: We Now Have Bullet Proof Glass. Ten of the Peterson kids latched on with friends. Lamont and his brother Anthony, younger by 13 months, were on their own. They slept on park benches and in abandoned cars. On cold nights they tried the bus station. The worst, however…