"We walk this road in trouble with an ache inside our souls

We can't hide it with religion, we can't buy it off with gold

And the pleasures we all reach for they're just masters of disguise

While there is power in the glory of what lies right before our eyes."

~Emmylou Harris

The man nicknamed Noodles was abandoned in the hospital at birth. His mother was never in the picture and his father, a Vietnam vet with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, struggled to stay a step ahead of the law and eviction notices while dealing with his own demons.

Noodles mostly raised himself. He got passed a...