Germano Tomassetti

So we would, we had a crew ourselves, but we always got into it with these much bigger groups and gangs because of him.

You know what I mean?

It was just like, we were so loyal to him and he was such a, just a

I don't know, just a character that he just constantly had problems.

Anyways, he shows me a little bit about this world.

And eventually, after a couple of years of hanging out, I kind of get tired of it.

I dabbled in drug dealing when I was younger, around that age.

Wasn't good at it, first of all.

Second of all, didn't like it.

I was too empathetic.

I remember that one time, one story that sticks with me in particular is we went to, he asked me to come with him to collect an amount from someone that owed like 4K or 5K or whatever.

This was in one of the, you know, one of the hoods.

and we go to collect off this guy and he's got no money and uh you know he's got nothing really that he can give up because he's already done this he's already gone to the pawn shop and sold everything that he has so he you know if he didn't come up with something we were you know something bad was going to happen to him i don't think we would kill him but he was going to get a beating so he ends up handing over this piece of paper and it's it's basically like

the slip to his daughter's car.

So his daughter had just turned 16 years old and he bought her like a used car or whatever for her birthday.

And he was about to give it to her the following week.

And he basically like wrote over the car right then and there just to take care of his debt.

And for me, like I said, growing up,

up empathetic and poor, mind you, because my mom raised us after my dad being in jail all the time was very empathetic to people going through that situation, especially with drugs.

So that day in particular, I said, I'm never doing this again.