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Malaak Compton-Rock lives in the New Jersey suburbs with her husband, Chris Rock, and two daughters.
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I n t r o d u c t i o n
The Glorious Adventure of a Life in Service
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Dedicate your life to a cause greater than yourself and your life
will become a glorious romance and adventure.
—MACK R.
DOUGLAS
I stood in front of the crowded room at the Bushwick Salvation
Army Community Center in Bushwick, Brooklyn, readying myself to speak to the seventy children who had gathered in front of me. The kids looked up at me with a wide array of expressions, somewith broad smiles and eager eyes, some with curious, watchful stares, and even a few with bored faces.
We were meeting in the cafeteria of the community center that
regularly feeds the homeless and elderly during the day, along with the throngs of elementary, middle school, and high school students who arrive in the afternoon after sc