Wilmer Carter:  

Dear Paula and friends: Paula has requested that I tell my story and I shall try and do just that. In the year of 1972 my family suffered a bad house fire and we were homeless for awhile; I remember the American Red Cross putting my family up in a hotel somewhere along Folsom street. I remember the hotel being right next door to a topless bar. The bar is not there anymore but the hotel may be still there. For those of you that may not know the members of my family there was six of us. Willie was the oldies by birth, then there was me the oldies by default, Sonia Carter, Ronnie Carter, Gary Carter and Dwight Simpson the baby boy born in 1970. At this point my mother as a single parent was doing a fairly decent job raising six children alo...Expand for more