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Please take care of yourself. So now let's get into the early life of Willie Corey Godbolt. Hit it Beth.

Willie Corey Godbolt was born on May 1st, 1982. His family and friends called him Corey. He had at least three siblings, a sister and two brothers. He may have had more, but those are the only ones that I read about.

His parents separated prior to his birth and his father married the

woman that he left his mother for. Part of me wondered if his father, you know he, his

father obviously met at one point another woman, had another family, but if he had more outside children, because it's not, you know, black people are not a monolith, but I come from a vent diagram of diasporic black communities

worldwide and outside children is not unusual so now what's outside children?

Outside children are when your daddy has kids by other women.

Other women.

Okay, well they're married or something.

Yeah, sometimes you don't but it's just it happens. I'm sure it happens in white communities but I'm sure it happens in white communities but I'm not white

so I don't know. Anyway it has been reported that when Godbolt was a

young man he experienced some sort of sexual abuse but we were unable to find

out exactly what that was.

On November 15, 1999, when Corey was 17,

his stepmother shot and killed his father,

a police officer who had been violent towards her after she tried to leave him.

She accused him of domestic violence but the charges were dropped.

That night in November she shot him using his own police revolver and then she pleaded guilty to manslaughter and burglary.

And she did go to prison for some time.

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