Germano Tomassetti

His brain was so fried from the drugs and his body looks so weak.

He's probably 50 or 50 something at the time, but he looked like he was 80.

You know what I mean?

So that's the history with him.

Well, no, I think he went to jail and then like during that time in jail, she probably divorced him or whatever it was like he was constantly in and out for shorter terms later on, like a year or two or whatever for little robberies and probably, you know, going against his probation or whatever it was.

Right.

And then the only reason why I brought that up is because as I was getting to the teenage years into the younger adult years, I was very angry.

So a part of it was because my dad had left.

and then at one point i just was so i always had authority issues i couldn't listen to anybody anybody that was trying to tell me anything i didn't want to listen to them including my mom so eventually she got fed up with me a little bit and i ended up spending about a year doing like group homes i was in like housing and stuff like that with other teens and that was a terrible experience in itself because

you know, I come from a place called Transcona in Winnipeg and it's like, it's kind of like small town mentality.

There's no, there's not a lot of foreigners.

It's like white picket fence, that kind of stuff, you know, it's not rich by any means, but it's kind of closed off from the rest of the city and it's a city by itself.

So when I go into these group homes, all of a sudden I'm going to the North end or Elmwood.

And these are the places that are a little bit harder, right?

More poverty stricken and

full of gangs and drug dealing and stuff like that.

So, I mean, in a way it did good things for me because it toughened me up, but it didn't do anything good other than that.

And it made me more upset with my mom.

Cause I'm like, you left me in the shit hole to fend for myself.

And now I'm fighting these kids that are like,