Robby Hoffman

they keep having kids, and they're, in my dad's case, he didn't like kids.

So it's just compounding stress, and then he's violent, he drinks, all the same.

Yeah, it was like, you know, in that community too at the time, like there weren't resources like how to, you know, they were like, you know, we're poor, and many religious Jews are, many aren't anymore now.

What's the difference?

I think their real estate has really picked up and stuff that they owned, you know, like for families like that.

But a lot of people are kept really poor and there's still such, there's like, it used to be the whole, that whole community was mostly poor, 99%, because they're living on prayer and, you know, like...

they're hoping things will just come, and they're not coming.

You're living in a capitalist world now.

You're not farming, you're not, like, yeah.

So, but my father, to this memory, I was, I just saw a rider truck, and I remember my father had to get a rider truck, and it was yellow at the time, this rider truck, and now they're white and red.

But we got to go in the truck.

Like, I don't know if he had a job for the day, or he was helping a friend or whatever, but he just suddenly came in, and he's like, who wants to sit in the truck?

Of course, we all shot up like fucking A. And I remember getting to sit up in the truck with him, maybe four or five of us.

Okay.

And it was just so fun.

Like, I remember at school saying, like, my father has a truck.

We rode around.

He took us, I mean, this is where the memory goes sour, but still was nice.

We went to the gas station and he said, let everybody get a candy.

Great.