Evaristo Salas Jr. (Junior)

But I remember, I have a lot of... Growing up with my mother was pretty chaotic, you know.

She was very poor, and she was... She was strange in a sense because she had... There was one side of her that was very religious, you know.

You know, she taught us, you know, how to pray, you know.

We went to church a lot when we were kids.

But then there was another side of her that where she was addicted to every vice there was, you know.

And it was hard...

to see the two, you know, because, you know, on the weekends we went to church and then there was other times where she would throw parties at the house and bring all these people, strangers in the house and do drugs and get a drink and, you know, and just have these kind of these moments where she was just, you know, so wasted that she didn't even kind of resemble her mother anymore.

And so she brought a lot of strange people into her house and that kind of stuff.

So it was really chaotic.

You know, we were always hungry.

I was always hungry.

We didn't really have any clothes to wear.

The water was always shut off.

I remember us going to food banks.

I remember us going to churches and asking for money, those kind of things.

And it's not that she didn't have these things or the government didn't provide it for her because they had a welfare program that did provide the money for her.

It's just that she took that money and spent it on her bad habits, you know, drugs and drinking, those kind of things.

And so it was very chaotic, you know, and my mother had a tendency to have boyfriends that were the worst kind.

Not only were they addicted to drugs just like her,

But they were abusive to her.