Joe Loya

We're just thinking this is the way it is in the East LA neighborhood when you're in the 60s, right?

My mother gets sick when I'm seven and she gets kidney disease.

I don't know it, but this is going to kill her in two years.

And in the meantime, it's dragging her down.

There's no fight.

She can't get a new kidney.

Her body would reject it.

That's how far along it was.

Now the stress is on my dad.

Private schools, driving us to school, has to go visit mom's.

Moms is having all these experimental drugs on her and periodically she doesn't know who she is.

Not only does she not know who she is, sometimes she thinks she's Elizabeth Taylor.

And she would call the house and say, hey, can I speak to my boys?

This is Elizabeth Taylor.

She was out there.

And my dad was having to deal with this stress, right?

So when you're stressed out and you're a young man, he goes to aggression.

And me and my brother, we would do smallest things and we would get hit pretty good.

It's a really weird time.

All this stuff's happening.