Poetic Obituaries: [Bryan Antoine] Adams [Jr.] overcame his shyness

through writing and performing rap songs, his mother said. Mangana encouraged her son to take a poetry writing class at Howard County Community College and his father encouraged him to take theater classes, Adams Sr. said.

Adams was still working through the grief of losing his toddler son by writing rap songs about the boy, Mangana said, adding that she believes that the young father and son are now united in heaven.

from Columbia Flyer: Hundreds mourn man slain in Wilde Lake

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