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How do you come to selling crack?

Here's the story.

So a lot of people don't know your history.

Yeah.

So let's go through that. Okay. You grew up in Portland. Yeah. As a young

teenager you start selling crack. Yeah. How did you come to that decision? Well it actually doesn't seem now like it was I wasn't

anomaly I was more like you know kind of going alone that was like status quo

really what everybody around you was doing yeah I think alone that was like status quo really.

What everybody around you was doing?

Yeah I think, you know, a lot of the guys from my neighborhood, like if you,

well I should back up and say that, you know, this is 1980s, early 1980s, mid-1980s, my mother is already

struggling with addiction since like mid-80s. So by the time, yeah, so by the time the 90s get around like I've already been on the other side of it right

I've seen her go out I've seen people that I know and love kind of fall into

addiction and then I've seen my friends starting to do it or people

a little older than me and they're already making money man so you know it's the same

cliche you know you see the older guys they got a nice car or something and uh...

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