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Nora and Eugene Lum, a Hawaiian couple, raised tons of money from Asian-Americans for the Democratic Party, befriended Ron Brown and other party bigwigs, used these political ties to buy an Oklahoma gas company, and earned a $9 million profit on the deal without lifting a finger.
After a few days, befriended and coached by these veterans of a different time and a different kind of war, most of us revived enough to make do behind the barbed wire in the blighted landscape.
He exaggerated and lied, but he was there --he befriended weirdos and freaks, made common cause with the dregs of society, stirred trouble, listened.
I was a gullible child, and so I was often befriended by major league liars.
At one point, early in the book, an entire family of five whom Brock had befriended dies on a bitter winter night, after being turfed out of their apartment.