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In Laura Schroff’s book, she recounts a story about an ad executive and a young boy from Harlem. The two were brought together by fate, but their relationship was sustained by the invisible thread that bound them. They shared meals and holidays together as well as their own personal triumphs and disappointments.

Maurice is a boy who lives in an environment where adults are often unreliable. His mother and grandmother have drug problems, so they disappear from time to time. He also has uncles who are drug dealers, and they also come and go as squatters. In his experience with adults, Maurice finds that he can’t depend on them for anything because they’re not reliable or trustworthy. The exception is Schroff; she’s the only adult he knows who truly cares about him by taking him places with her family during holidays and teaching him how to bake cookies, set a table properly, attend back-to-school conferences with him, pack his lunch in brown paper bags with his name written on it every day when school starts.

Although Schroff’s life is more comfortable and safe than Maurice’s, their childhoods share some similarities. Both of them grew up witnessing erratic and dangerous adult behavior. Schroff’s father was a kind man but turned violent when he drank. He also emotionally abused her family members. Her experiences watching her own mother suffer gave her insight into Maurice’s mother, who loves him but can’t escape addiction and the label “unfit parent.”

As the years pass, Maurice and Schroff have to navigate the terms and complexities of their relationship. Changes ensue when both Schroff and Maurice meet romantic partners. After her first marriage ends in a miserable divorce, Schroff doesn’t expect to find love but can’t shake the dream of having her own family. When she meets Michael, she hopes that she will realize this dream. However, he has other plans that don’t included children or Maurice. Maurice ends up having children with two women, and Schroff believes he has become a father too young. Yet Schroff is proven wrong when Maurice marries Michelle and they have additional children, a home of their own, and the big table that Maurice always dreamed his very own family would sit around and share meals together at it every day for dinner as well as life together; so now there’s no need for him to come over anymore because everything is right here where he belongs now; even though it wasn’t what either one had planned on happening in life but sometimes things happen unexpectedly like this in life you never know what could be waiting for you around any corner any time anywhere just like how these two people found each other by chance meeting each other which changed both of their lives forever!

Chapter 1: “Spare Change”

The author of this book is Laura Schroff. She’s an ad executive at a national magazine and she takes pride in her work ethic and personality, which helped her overcome the fact that she didn’t come from money. Although she’s not in a relationship right now, her career makes up for it because she loves what she does.

The author seems to have learned to ignore the homeless in New York, or any other modernized city. In 1986, homelessness is at an all-time high and she has mostly tuned it out. There are people on the streets that look like they’re suffering from a mental illness or drug addiction but she feels that living in New York means being caught up in one’s own life and tuning things out.

The author admits she was oblivious to the homeless until she met Stan, a man who carried all his belongings in one plastic bag. She gave him coffee every day and wondered what happened to him after he disappeared from his usual spot.