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I would put on my clothes and I would tip [toe] out in the middle of the night to go gamble. In a week he would get paid. He would give me money to go buy the groceries. I’d go gamble every bit of it.
"I saw a side of America that just wasn’t pleasant to me. It was an America that presented everything superficial."
I recall walking home from football practice at Tyner Junior High School. I would walk behind the school because I didn't want other kids to see me walking home, or not having a ride home. They would get the car with their da...
That’s the key thing here and when someone says they’re gay or homosexual, that is now saying; “That is my identity.”
As I came out I heard her singing “Jesus loves me.” The faster she rocked, the louder she sang. My parents heard her and we were kicked out of the house.
I was moving around twenty, thirty, sometimes forty pounds of marijuana a month. I was eighteen years old. I had money. I had friends.
I know I’m a born again believer. The problem was, I didn’t know how to look for help in what I was trying to mend and fix. I also had an alcohol problem. There was a day that I would have my first drink before I would have m...
There was a different atmosphere around me. The darkness and the evil was gone. I had love in me for the first time.
By the time I was thirty I had experienced five failed marriages. I felt like I could do nothing right;
It seemed like the more money I made, the less likely it would ever be that I would ever have another lifestyle or anything away from the culture that I was in. During that time I felt something tugging at my soul and I didn’...