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JUNE 12, 2021 – “I was like the old song goes, ‘I was looking for love in all the wrong places.’ I was from a family of nine children, and my mom and dad worked constantly, you know, to keep a roof over our head, to keep food in our bellies. And so, I wasn’t getting the attention I was looking for at home, so I started to look for it outside of the house. You know, the people that were doing the wrong things, the kids that were into the wrong stuff were only too happy to give me the attention I was looking for. From the age of 12, I was in and out of jail, homeless, sleeping anywhere and everywhere. I lived under a porch at one point for quite a while, in and out of prison.” “It’s such an easy thing to describe, to be really honest with you. So here it is, is that a person that doesn’t have addiction problems or doesn’t understand addiction, looks at somebody who’s addicted, and they see whatever it is they’re using as the thing that’s tearing them apart. The addict actually sees that same substance as the thing that’s holding them together, right? And the thought of facing life without it, is almost unbearable.”
