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Faulty Decisions In Wes Moore's Childhood
Wes Moore made many faulty decisions throughout his childhood. The people around someone puts an outcome on one’s entire life. Wes as a kid was very obedient, but he grew up in many criminal oriented neighborhoods. His father left his family when he was young. Wes grew up around his mom who did drugs and friends who influenced him to make his faulty decisions.
Wes’s future could have always changed, but the fact that his brother was a drug dealer who became a father as a teen, his mom did drugs and partied while she had responsibilities ,and his father was a deadbeat and was never in his life. His surroundings were never something to look up to. Wes skipped school; therefore he never really had a proper education. Wes went to jail and ended
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