Hunting in Harlem

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THREE EX–CONS CAME to Harlem looking to become something more.

Bobby Finley drove up in a rented truck from New Carrollton, Maryland, his boxes of books stacked to the ceiling in the back, what few other possessions he had riding in the passenger seat next to him. Cedric Snowden took the train north from Philadelphia with just a backpack and a boom box, figuring if this turned out to be a scam he could grab both and just as quickly head back toward the Schuylkill. Horus Manley was going to take the plane from Chicago but then realized he could pocket the majority of his travel allowance and bring his guns if he took the bus instead.

These were the men recruited by Horizon Realty for their Second Chance Program, selected for the opportunity to rebuild their lives in a neighborhood trying to do the same. Regardless of mode of travel or point of origin, all three new interns soon found themselves in the same basement classroom in the city they would be asked to call home, identical orientation packets on their child-sized desks and looks of confusion as they tried to make sense of the man standing behind the podium before them.

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