Joe Loya
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He slaps us around.
I'm telling you, I walk in, he's preparing for church.
And this disillusions me even further because had he just been a regular blue collar worker who went to church with me on Sunday and beat me up, I'm like, okay, that's everybody.
You're right.
But this is different because I'm being encouraged to aspire to higher themes and I'm watching my father do it.
And on Sunday,
I'm watching the entire congregation love on my dad because he's that guy who's inspiring them to the higher themes.
And I'm looking around saying, you guys don't see it?
We're getting beat up all the time.
We got bruises on us.
What are you guys doing?
And it disillusions me to the whole rigmarole.
The time goes on.
My dad gets married to another woman.
She was a great stepmom.
Her name was Brenda.
I was 10, she was 20.
My dad's 26 at this point, 27.
Yeah, very young, right?
So Brenda was out of Turlock up here.