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February 14, 2008 - Xavier McCaskey a south Philadelphia native was born and raised on and off in Philadelphia's Raymond Rose projects.
Born to a young an single mother Xavier attributes all his success to God his mother but most of all his grandmother Mrs.Catherine Broome McCaskey and his Late grandfather Albert N. McCaskey two native New Yorkers.
Xavier a Doctoral Candidate who will graduate November 2008 with a dual degree a Master in School Counseling Psychology and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Western Alabama says
"All the bad things that have happened to me in my life I have bounced back from, I've fallen from the highest mountain into the deepest river and never drowned.
I have been paralyzed and only to come back and walk. I have been a military serviceman, I have had cars and homes and have lost it all and I bounced back so you can't tell me about intestinal fortitude because I exemplify it; It is to me as I am to it.
My mother told me one thing I was about nine years old and she said
" Nothing you ever will want in life will come easy you have to fight for it and go out and make your own way in life.
I am not a rich woman but I will do for you all I can, I won't spoil you and I won't make life seem easier than it is. But you have to be a man, I will teach and guide you until your 18 and then after that your on your own.]
I can't make you a man but this cruel world will show you how to become that."It'll make you or either break you in any event if you fall get up, get up and fight and never quit.
Don't let anyone tell you can't do or become anything you have but one life son reach for the stars!!!"
