1/16/2023 0 Comments Nike get over your fear of heights![]() ![]() ![]() “He told me he just couldn’t face it,” Lacy says. I was just trying not to not to deal with it at all.” I couldn’t deal with the fact of what was happening. “I can only say that the reason I didn’t go is because I just I couldn’t deal with it. “I can’t justify it,” he says of his absence. Miller did not show up for the funeral to be by his daughter’s side. When Lacy was in college, her mother died. Miller co-wrote his book with his daughter Laila Lacy, who gave him a second chance after he hurt her. Barbara Mack, White’s sister, said she forgave him, explaining, “I must forgive in order to be forgiven,” the attorney said. Marrero said Miller apologized for not reaching out prior to publishing the book. ![]() Miller has met White’s relatives twice, according to Ronald Marrero, an attorney representing the White family who hosted the meetings at his office. The gravestone for Edward White is seen at Rolling Green Memorial Park in West Chester, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, January 11, 2022. He shot him in the chest and walked away. He and some others went into the rival gang’s turf on the night of September 30, 1965, when they saw another teen, a complete stranger. But he knows he’d been lured by the streets, been involved with gang life for several years and was mad that one of his crew had recently been killed. Miller doesn’t remember all that much about the first encounter – cheap wine didn’t have him thinking clearly and time has dulled memories, he acknowledges. By telling his story to media and in the new book “Jump: My Secret Journey from the Streets to the Boardroom” maybe he can reach a kid today to stop him doing something he will regret, or show an incarcerated person there is life after prison, he says. That’s why he’s at the corner of 53rd and Locust, where he committed the worst act of his life – taking the life of another. The tension lifted when he wrote a book on his remarkable life story, and he hopes that his talking about his redemption will offer a fresh way to look at formerly incarcerated people. Larry Miller sits for a portrait at the Lucien Blackwell Community Center in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, January 12, 2022. There was always this tension and this fear that somehow this is going to come out and it’s going to ruin everything I’ve built up to this point.” “I had incredible migraine headaches and I’m certain that that was all from just trying to hold all this in and being concerned that it might come out. “I had nightmares on a regular basis about going back to jail,” he tells CNN. ![]() He says he suffered debilitating migraines and nightmares until he decided to open up about his whole life, not just that part lived in the public eye. The intervening decades were clouded by Miller keeping his criminal past secret as he rose far up the corporate ladder, mostly notably leading the Jordan Brand at Nike, as well as heading up the Portland Trail Blazers NBA franchise. The second, 56 years later as a lauded business executive, brand visionary and friend of Michael Jordan, gave him a new chance to seek redemption. The first, as a drunk and angry 16-year-old, ended with him murdering another teen. Two chance encounters at the same West Philadelphia street corner show the remarkable arc of Larry Miller’s life. ![]()
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