Ahmad states that he'll succeed because his restaurant "would be better." Nevertheless, in order to be one hundred percent sure, one night in February, he went on a covert spying mission to a small place down the block, Clementine Bakery.

My mother’s second dream was to own a supermarket.

As a child, I sat with her in our compound in the evenings, after all the chores were completed, or took a walk with her if the weather was nice. It was on these walks that we usually talked about our future dreams.

“I like canvassing and doing what I do because it's almost like a way of repenting for my sin of being egotistical. When I walk up to those pearly gates, I want to be like, hey, at least I tried. It’s funny because I’m not even religious." 

One night while he and his wife were driving in New Jersey, there was a hitchhiker on the side of the road. Any other time before Sing Sing, Ted would have stopped for this hitchhiker. But not this night.