The most difficult bond to break is that of family. The connection that a father has with his son is not like any other relationship they will forge. For Devin (African American) his male role model came in the form of Pop’s, his grandfather. Pop’s told him about his great grand father who was a freed slave and how their bloodline came to be. He taught him how to be a man and more than that he taught him how to love. That in the midst of the abusive home he was raised in his father’s drinking and his mother’s inability to stand up for her self and her child Devin could still be a good person. Now Devin is in the midst of the greatest moment of his life, he is about to become a father. But as he sits in his unborn son’s room he wonders how he will explain to him that his grandmother is dead at the hands of his grandfather. How does he tell him that you can love someone and still decide that putting them in prison for the rest of their lives is the best decision for everyone involved? And through all that he still remembers moments of joy and love, he still knows that his father loves him. He still holds onto the values Pop’s taught him but as a man and as a person he refuses to allow his son to live in the same shadows that he lived in. It is in the passing down of stories and sometimes artifacts that history is made. This piece is a brief moment in time for a young man to reflect on his life before he brings life into the world that was created for him.