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I want to start with something that took me six years and more sleepless nights than I can count to understand. The ringing in your ears is not the problem. If you are listening to this at three in the morning because the sound drove you out of bed again, that statement may feel impossible to accept. I understand. I have been there — lying awake, counting the hours until the alarm goes off, noticing the sound grow louder the harder I tried to ignore it. After six years of research, I discovered something important: what makes tinnitus unbearable is rarely the sound itself.

Tom Daniels and "Cookie" Marsh will be the first to tell you that race isn't everything. But it did shape the way they experienced the world growing up in Detroit in the 1950s and '60s. Tom “Cookie” Marsh grew up in a black neighborhood on Detroit’s west side. Tom Daniels grew up in a mixed working-class neighborhood on Detroit's east side. Both men grew up in strict households, and both saw their city, their country, and their world transform around them through the Civil Rights movement, riots, and the Vietnam War.