We got to this one building and he said, “This is where you will be living, and remember what happens to you if you cause any trouble. In case you forgot, I’ll remind you, I’ll pay you a little visit, do you understand?”

I said yes Sir and in the building we went. When we got inside I saw what he meant by, “Things have changed.” There were colored guys in here now, and I mean a lot of them.

I saw a bunch of guys in this one big room watching TV; they all turned to see the new guy, checked me out and went back to watching the TV. This huge colored man and this colored lady came out to meet us.

Mr. Blake said, “I have another one for you.”

The lady spoke first, she said, “Hello, we are Mr., and Mrs. Tucker, and that’s how you will address us, do you understand? Now let’s get you a place to sleep.”

I thought, ‘well these two aren’t that bad;’ I would soon come to find out that was the furthest thing from the truth. That woman would just as soon smack the shit out of you, as look at you. She took me over to her husband, and told him to find me a bed; I knew now who wore the pants in that relationship. He took me up these huge sets of stairs and down this long hallway into this large dormitory; he took me over to this bed with the mattress folded in half and told me, “This is your bed. Make sure that it is made right, every morning, someone will show you how. Tomorrow Mrs. Tucker will assign you a job and let me tell you something, don’t get on her wrong side, as you won’t like it!”

I said, “Yeah, what’s new; I learned a long time ago, about how to make a bed.”

I made my bed and went down stairs to the rec. room. I thought that I saw someone that I knew, and sure enough there stood Eddy. I walked over to him and said, “How’s’ it going?”

He looked at me as if he didn’t remember me, so I asked him, “Don’t you remember me from the junior side?”

He turned to me and said, “Yeah, I remember you, you were the guy that took the worst ass-whipping that I’ve ever seen. They talk about it on the junior side to this day, best damn boxing match there ever was. You got more points for losing, then the guy who won, yes I remember you. What did you get sent up for this time?”