There’s more to being a man that seeing how many phone numbers you can get or who you convince to sleep with you. Being a man means bearing responsibility and accepting the consequences for your actions. This means the most to me because of my pop, Leonard Smith. He’s really my little brother and sister’s dad, but he became mine, too. My real dad never been much help to me but Pop …showed first 75 words of 712 total…

…showed last 75 words of 712 total…me or throw a punch at me, I’m supposed to “rough her up a little” or “put her back in her place.” I couldn’t do anything like that. That’s just not in my personality. Pop taught me that a real man doesn’t try to get every female and her momma to sleep with him. He treats her with respect, dignity and honor. That’s a lesson well learned and well remembered.