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Delusions of grandeur or relentless ambition? Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference. At age thirty-six, Donald L. Brown had resigned himself to being a “complete loser.” A high-school dropout and a failed professional athlete, he was now a laborer. When severely injured in an industrial accident, he was told he would never walk again. His second marriage crumbled and his wife left him. He was considering suicide as his remaining option.
But Brown had a dream, while on morphine for the pain from the accident. He imagined himself graduating from Harvard Law School and walking across America. Of course, everyone told him he was crazy, but he took the dream to heart nonetheless.
The Morphine Dream is Brown’s intriguing tale of his long walk—both physical and metaphorical—to achieving his goals. But this is not just the conventional story of a man who defeated insurmountable odds.
After achieving the seemingly impossible and achieving national recognition as a legal crusader for minority homeowners, Brown once again fell onto hard times after committing a serious error in judgment which resulted in the loss of his law license. Having hit rock bottom before, he refused to succumb to what fate seemed to have in store for him. Digging deep inside, he achieved new dimensions he could never have imagined.
An amazing story of one man’s loss and gain, hope, and the revealing of an unexpected calling.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Don L. Brown
Don Brown is a Former standout sandlot baseball player, and later a well-regarded defensive tackle on a professional football team in the New England Conference; Don became a laborer after his playing days were over. After suffering a catastrophic injury while working in a factory in 1980, he made his way to college at the age of 36. His path began at Mount Wachusset Community College and took him to Amherst College and Harvard Law School. At Harvard Law he was a classmate of Both Michelle (Robinson) Obama and Barack Obama.
In his third year law school thesis—written in 1989 and now housed in the permanent collection at the Harvard Law School Library—Brown predicted that Barack Obama would become president of the United States. A long-time college professor and noted distance walker, Brown is now semi-retired. He lectures and teaches regularly and writes every day. Additionally, Brown still participates in charity walking events all around the country.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Gary S. Chafetz: Often referred to as "one of the ten best journalists of the past twenty-five years," Gary Chafetz is a former Boston Globe correspondent, and twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Globe. He is the author of three books, including The Perfect Villain, for which he was the only reporter able to gain access to Jack Abramoff, the notorious Washington lobbyist. Chafetz secretly met with Abramoff for two years, prior to and during his imprisonment, without the knowledge of federal prosecutors.
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