Chapters Part 1: Prequel to Obedient Life Temple

Born in 1971 and raised between prison walls, revival churches, and shifting state lines, a boy grows up learning that survival depends on silence, instinct, and adaptation. Moving between Kansas and California, caught in cycles of addiction, violence, and belief, he navigates the margins of 1970s and 1980s America—where growing up means learning how not to disappear.