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At the age of thirteen, I watched a parent die right in front of me. A decades later, I had no idea the other one would follow suit so brutally… or that I’d be wandering the world so vulnerably for as long, thereafter. Only recently has my condition seen any…

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Somehow, though friends all throughout life preached the gospel of “playing” these women, I didn’t get it. “Be a player, bro,” they’d say. Right… if I stick to playing Video Games, they won’t eventually need Child Support checks.

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As a child, I’d often think about good times I’d had in hindsight. and recall exactly what about them was good. So many of my days would end with nights where I laid and reflected… why did my day go that way? What did I do? Did I do anything…

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As we grew, we definitely grew in our own directions. Soon after our father’s passing, younger Sibling moved to Grandma’s, which was unfortunately located right next to a Rocketdyne plant… in a gang neighborhood. Sibling was outright more prepared to dress like her local, surrounding Hispanic friends, then “play…

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During my youth, realizations that my life was more complicated than that of others came quickly. It wasn’t long before I realized that my own parents stayed up way too late…