Garet McLendon

Is he coming around at all?

I do vaguely remember the visits with my dad.

And I remember the day that he came and I had this choice.

He's like, you can come live with me and get away from all this.

In which my sister was like, yeah, I'm going to go live with you, dad.

And I stayed with my mom.

And I continue in that misery as a kid.

And I'm tall.

And so I just got to be able to stay in this conflict of life of my mom and guys and boyfriends and family.

and the abuse and the drugs like uh like kids would come to my house to stay the night because we i had no rules i did even the morning come back at night i i like to have i like to have friends that had stuff like uh food at the table some clean clothes that maybe i could wear and all this stuff because all those daily households all that daily household stuff wasn't getting met at my household unless it was like the first and the 15th when she got her check but even then towards the end that that was even making it i mean there was times as a kid like my mom would be with these guys and

the drugs and the money be all over the place but most of all there'd be guns around and uh she would like they'd be fighting so hard and and there would be times that she'd grab a gun and and she'd be pointing it at the guy and like if the safety wasn't on like my mom my mom would have just shot him

Or I'd walk in, my mom would be getting raped by guys and all this stuff.

And I really felt like there was nothing I could do as a kid because I was so little that they just throw me around.

And I finally got to a point in my life where I grew up quick and I was looking these guys in the eyes.

And so at that point, there was no more, you weren't going to abuse my mom or nothing like that no more.

At this time, my mom, what she starts doing, she starts dating her connection.

Her connection became my father figure because I don't talk to my father.

I see him vaguely.

I go to his house and visit.

My mom finally gets picked up maybe for warrants.