Joe Loya
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I start hearing sniffling.
I start hearing kind of, and I realize, oh, so I think somebody's crying.
And then more and more.
And then pretty soon it gets, becomes like, I want my mommy.
And these kids start crying to go home.
I want to go back to my mommy and my dad.
And I'm sitting there like, what the... I just tried to kill my dad.
And what I realized that night is I'm not wired like everybody else.
And I went to prison and I saw the same thing.
I'm not the only one who was treated like that.
But I'm the only one I ever met in that entire time who tried to kill their father.
The closest anyone got.
Several guys, their dad was beating on their mom and they...
picked up a band, they threatened him or they jumped on him and a couple of brothers beat up their drunk dad.
That was as bad as it got.
Nobody did what I did.
Not one person that I meet tried to kill their dad.
So I knew in that little McLaren Hall place, I'm not wired like everyone else.
I wanted to get there.
I'm gone.