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Same Kind Of Different As Me

A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

Plot

This is the story of a homeless man who came to the shelter where Ron & Deborah Hall served meals once a week. A street bum who refused to sleep inside or talk to anyone at the shelter. An angry, dangerous loner who frightened everyone he came in contact with. His name was Denver Moore. It's the tale of a man who grew up in virtual slavery, picking cotton for "the man" as late as the 1960s. A man who never attended a day of school, never was paid for his years of back-breaking labor, who saw surviving on the streets as a step up in life...never dreaming he'd be friends with an SUV-driving Starbucks-sipping white man.

And it's the story of Ron Hall, an upscale art broker with an eye for a masterpiece and a nose for a deal. He'd shot like a rocket from selling soup to selling Picassos and Van Goghs. At home, in Hollywood haciendas, Soho galleries, and European castles, he never expected the next chapter of his life would be written in an inner-city homeless shelter. Or that a street person's fierce loyalty and uncanny spiritual insight would carry him through the most painful time of his life

The true-life tale of two men and a remarkable woman, it's also a story about true life - gritty, down to earth, often wrenching, ultimately hopeful, always surprising. It's a story you can believe in.