J L. Adams is a 26 years old shoe shiner from New York City and 100for1 is the nickname for his book, One Hundred Answers, for the one question, Will you marry me?
J L. Adams is a 26 years old shoe shiner from New York City and 100for1 is the nickname for his book, One Hundred Answers, for the one question, Will you marry me? 100for1 consists of one on one conversations with myself and hundreds of individuals, both males and females of different age groups and different background, talking about marriage, love, relationship etc,while getting their shoes and boots shined by myself, those conversations was compressed into 100 short stories, that may be helpful to you and your relationship.
My Journey
Leaving a place I called home for over 21 years was not only hard but also dramatic for me and my family.
In 2008, when I got the news that I was going to be migrating to the USA to start a new life, I felt a fervent feeling flowing through my body, a feeling of accomplishment, a feeling of, “Yes, I’m finally getting into, but just the little that my dad had told me, and what I had seen on the television.
I’m not going to lie, when I arrived in 2008, it was very different from what I had seen all my life on TV. It was more challenging, but I wasn’t afraid to move forward, and do whatever I had to do to make it in America, although I did arrived when the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression was taking place.
I think coming to America at that particular time, has made me work harder and become more passionate to be successful than I was previously. There were a lot of ups and downs, disappointments, failures, broken hearts, laughs and tears. But I’m grateful that America is still the land of opportunities.
