Have a Little Faith A True Story Mitch Albom FINALLY, A BOOK FOR MY FATHER, IRA ALBOM, IN WHOM I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED. Life of Henry At the same time I was growing up in the suburbs, a boy about my age was being raised in Brooklyn. One day, he, too, would grapple with his faith. But his path was different. As a child, he slept with rats. Henry Covington was the second-youngest of seven kids born to his parents, Willie and Wilma Covington. They had a tiny, cramped apartment on Warren Street. Four brothers slept in one room; three sisters slept in another. The rats occupied the kitchen. At night, the family left a pot of rice on the counter, so the rats would jump in and stay out of the bedrooms. During the day, Henry?s oldest brother kept the rodents at bay with a BB gun. Henry grew up terrified of the creatures, his sleep uneasy, fearful of bites. Henry?s mother was a maid?she mostly worked for Jewish families?and his father was a hustler, a tall, powerful man who liked to sing around the house. He had a sweet voice, like Otis Redding, but on Friday nights he would shave in the mirror and croon ?Big Legged Woman,? and his wife would steam because she knew where he was going. Fights would break out. Loud and violent. When Henry was five years old, one such drunken scuffle drew his parents outside, screaming and cursing. Wilma pulled a .22-caliber rifle and threatened to shoot her husband. Another man jumped in just as she pulled the trigger, yelling, ?No, Missus, don?t do that!? The bullet got him in the arm. Wilma Covington was sent away to Bedford Hills, a maximum security prison for women. Two years. On weekends, Henry would go with his father to visit her. They would talk through glass. ?Do you miss me?? she would ask.
?Yes, Mama,? Henry would answer. During those years, he was so skinny they fed him a butterscotch weight gain formula to put meat on his bones. On Sundays he would go to a neighborhood Baptist church where the reverend took the kids home afterward
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