Bobby Jones

So at 13 years old, or no, excuse me, at 12 years old, they sent us home out of nowhere.

It was the summer after my sixth grade school year.

They sent us home.

Now, when I got home, there was no power in the trailer.

Neither one of my parents had a vehicle, a license, or a job.

The only food that we were getting at the time was from churches locally.

And we had an extension cord ran from the neighbor's house powering our refrigerator and the TV.

That's it.

Flashlights in the bedrooms.

And that's what they sent us home to.

I mean, they had to have, right?

Because they- They do the check.

And so like one of the biggest things was one of my parents, in order for us to go home, one of my parents had to be cleaned through the drug tests for a period of time.

Okay.

So my mom, I believe, yeah, I believe it was my mom that cleaned up enough for them to say, okay, we're going to send the kids home.

But that's the environment we went back to.

And again, like,

We were in a bad neighborhood, not too far from Woodside in the Magnolia area.

I'm 12 years old, lots of negative around me.

Even though my parents had their struggles and their demons, I was still taught right from wrong.