Family Values

The lessons we take from one generation to the next

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“We may be criminals, but we have values.” I can still hear those words in the back of my head. It was my daddy’s motto, the philosophy he lived by, and the mantra I’ve carried with me all these years.

When I was a kid, we moved around a lot. You see, Daddy was a con man. If there was a hustle to be made, Daddy was in on it. I don’t recall him ever being a…