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David

I was from the streets — never knew my dad, physically abused, selling drugs since 12, in and out of jail, addicted to meth, a habitual felon facing 25 to life. I believed in a higher power but not Jesus, and I thought everything I survived was because of me.

Chobby

I was a Triad branch leader — Chinese Mafia — recruited at 13, expelled from school, managing recruitment and territory by 15. I believed protection was love, and the gang gave me what my violent father never did. I was a member for life. That was who I was.

Yesupadas

I was an Untouchable boy treated worse than an animal, a committed communist who made a blood covenant to bring revolution to India. I was drinking, in gangs, cutting people, saw dead bodies — and I was happy doing it because I thought I was taking revenge.

Rodney

I was a little Black kid growing up in the streets, no father, looking up to drug dealers and OGs, trying to be the tough guy, the gangster. I was searching for identity, acceptance, and validation in all the wrong places — and I had a temper that could flip on a dime.