The Adventure Of Eric Thomas In The Secret To Success, Is Unbelievable

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Register to read the introduction… Eric has gone to living with his parents, to moving out on the streets and dropping out of school, to being a successful motivational speaker. While eric’s parents were on a vacation, he decides to throw a party at his house. The next morning, he heard his parents down stairs; they came home a little too early. Now even though he knows that he’s in trouble, he still tries to lie about it. He tells his parents that he just never cleaned up after himself on the period of time that they were gone. While that’s going on, his parents and him start to argue back and forth. Eric doesn’t like that, so he decides to leave his house for good. Noting that they always fight. What he don’t realize is that he has nowhere to go. he has no money, no food, no friends, no place to stay, nothing! He becomes homeless. …show more content…
“you can’t possibly do anything worse than that!” If you didn’t catch on yet, let me just tell you. At this point he’s pretty much screwed. When he’s on the streets, he decides to go to church. He goes to church because he wants to get right with god. and so he can lead him in the right direction. After a while of going there, he starts to have friends, and people who offer to help him with stuff. When you’re homeless, and if someone offers you something, i’m sure that would make your day. Also, another thing while he is attending church, he decides to get his G.E.D. and get his life back on track. “God has/had the biggest impact in my

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