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Excerpted from Ernie Hudson’s memoir “Ghosts I Am Afraid Of.”

Chapter 3

“I had been past 8 hours in the well. I could tell by the movement of the sun. The sun. I had traced its declining path this entire time, incapable as I was of viewing it beyond perception, like some tenant of an old faith, but as it began to set it was suddenly removed and in its wake was the warm face of Ray Parker Jr.’s father, Ray Parker Sr. It was my first run-in with a family I came to know in time as my own.”