Evaristo Salas Jr.

He says, yeah, I remember.

And it was like, when I think about those moments, there was moments where I had to kind of plant the hope for everybody else to benefit from because there was none there.

And you feel really lonely in those moments because then you start to second guess yourself at times.

You start thinking, well, maybe they're right.

Especially when it's 26 or when it's 25, 26, 27, and that you're pretty much getting to the point where you're going to do a little sense.

But there was something a part of me that said,

that a part of my hope is also my part of my resistance.

It's a part of my protest for not giving in.

It's all I have left.

I've done everything I can with filing or trying, you know, getting these people to help me.

But the fact that I'm not giving in or accepting, still fighting, that's my protest to the wrongness of what they're doing to me.

And sometimes that was all that kept me going from day to day, you know.

But yeah, it was having that mentality and being released

It served me well because it kept me out of that prison cage.

And so as soon as, like I said, as soon as I got out, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

And there was nothing going to stop me.

Not the doubts of the family.

You don't have money, well, I'll find you.

Or you don't even know how to drive, well, I'll find a ride.

You know, well, how are you going to get there?