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welcome to locked in man it's great to have you you just drove you know a few hours from

pittsburgh to get out here we met through email you hit me up for the first time a complete random stranger and it's like, hey, I'd love to come on your show. And this is the first time you're ever telling your story to an audience and you have an insane story and, you know, we're looking forward to hearing about it. What was your life like growing up? Like, what kind of family do you come from?

Lower class. I would say definitely lower class poverty. It's the ghetto. And what do your parents do for work?

So my stepdad was a jetney driver. He owned a concession stand. Well, owned and ran the concession

stand that didn't work out. He had a bar as well.

There was a lot of problems between him and my mom to where, you know, he was out cheating on

her and doing things that he shouldn't have been doing. He was so focused on on that to where, like,

he wasn't doing what he was supposed to be doing. But there was very, a lot of verbal

arguments there to where like yelling and screaming and like sometimes could get, you know,

a little bit physical, not like real physical, but I remember sitting at the top of the

steps with my sisters with the phone and my mom telling me, you know, whenever I tell you to call the cops, I want you to call the cops. You know, so it was kind of like that happened a lot. And that's got to be traumatic for a kid like you. And what are you like 10 years old at the time? I like 9, 8, 9 years old at the time. How many siblings do you have?

There's six of us. And your youngest, oldest, middle? I'm the middle child, yeah.

Were you guys close growing up? Yeah, we were. We were. We were pretty close. Could have been

closer, but, you know, we just didn't have that like togetherness. It's something that my mom always wanted. And, you know, we just didn't have that, like, togetherness. It's something that my mom always wanted,

and, you know, she always wanted the big dining room table that we all could sit around.

But, you know, we didn't really have sit-down dinners or anything like that

because everything was so busy.

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