Ryan Lejarde

Oct 1, 2024 | mrbellersneighborhood.com | Jose Corpas |Jasmine Dreame Wagner |Ryan Lejarde

____________________________I did not expect him to answer the door in his underwear. He was sixty-something, and I was seventeen and lacking direction. My father had just died, and high school was about to end. Instead of thinking about college, I wanted to be a boxer, like the ones my father and I had watched on television; like the one who answered the door in his boxer shorts.