Joe Loya

Great education.

And unfortunately, my dad had been brutalized as a kid, even though he loves God, even though he loves Jesus, even though, you know, I want to grow up and I want to do something at church.

My dad would get angry sometimes, a little bit more than, you know, than the average person.

He was always on edge.

He would get angrier.

He was really defensive, really kind of, you know, he just got a little volatile.

But he's young.

We're young.

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.