LENNY MACK

 

     Forty-three year old Leonard Thomas McPherson, Jr., Lenny Mack to his friends, was a street performer, a magician. He had escaped the drudgery of teaching at the University, and loved his carefree new life.

     Then one morning he was approached by a woman, Evelyn Stowe, a kind and beautiful, and well-intended young social worker who thought she had “rescued” Lenny Mack from his life as a homeless beggar, checking him into a shelter, then obtaining a court order to keep him there until he could be “rehabilitated” and acclimated back into society.

     They robbed Lenny Mack of his liberty, his contented life, and his jovial personality. He was now an empty shell, tired, angry, lonely.  In their reports they had called him “defiant,” and he was determined to defy them, one last time. He would not be defeated.