
Somehow, though friends all throughout life preached the gospel of happily “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.

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…

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. David Hojak’s sibling was outright more prepared to dress like her local, surrounding Hispanic friends…

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…

From an early age, I was told of what the “better half” of my family… the more “well-behaved” side of it…… had occupied their time with. Once others in the family became more conscious of choices my parents were making… invites to functions began to come further & fewer between.