Evaristo Salas Jr.

A couple of them, I already talked to one of them already.

Or I talked to two of them already.

I wrote them and told them, look, whatever I can do,

I'm going to do for you guys, you know, so I'm going to make time no matter what.

But it is it was hard.

Not only that, but there was also which is a little bit strange.

There was some staff that I was really, really cool with and respected in there that I would see all the time.

And every time I would talk to them, you know, they were we kind of developed a friendship, if that's even possible.

And some of them I'm going to kind of miss to miss seeing some of them.

I had a boss that was just.

just so cool, you know, and I would, we'd go out and fight fires together and we'd be out there in the, um, uh, staging and we would talk, you know, we'd have talks and, you know, all of us as a group, you know, you get real close when, when you're, you know, you're a 10 man crew and you're out there fighting fires in the middle of the night.

And so I'm going to miss a lot of them too.

Because they were really, you know, they were really close to me.

But the only way to kind of deal with that is to reach out to those few individuals and kind of maintain that kind of friendship.

But yeah, there was actually some sadness in leaving that place for me.

Yeah, I mean, in the beginning, there was a lot of concern because I didn't know what to expect when I got here.

But once I kind of came out, kind of kind of seen the response of the community, that anxiety kind of went away.

It doesn't mean that I won't run into people here and there.

But at the same time, I think that there's a part of it that has to do with my story.

You know, I think that the fact that it came out that I didn't do it.