"Then I began to realize that what Raven is doing could have helped me when I was growing up. I don’t even think my folks knew each other’s names, and whoever my mother was, she dumped me fast enough. An odd couple, Bedrick and Hilda Kies, raised me and gave me their name. But I've got no SIN. so the streets were my daycare center and television my schooling. I ran afoul of the gang that claimed my building as its turf -they’re the Halloweeners -and getting beat up became something I could look forward to each day."