Steve Bunting

what happens after eighth grade.

Yeah.

So, you know, along this way, I realized, like, my house wasn't safe, right?

Lived in a small trailer, and oftentimes there wasn't even heat in the trailer, so it would just be very cold.

in there a lot of times not a lot of food so i would find my own way man i would i was out in the streets as much as i could be especially once my stepdad passed and he couldn't rule like kind of rain me anymore i would just had different friends and i would pick different friends houses to go stay with and one of these friends that i became best friends with in fourth grade was my best friend brandon

So he became like my proxy ride or die.

And Brandon's mom had horses and they, you know, stayed really busy.

So I would just go spend time with him.

We'd go work at the farm and feed the horses.

And I just got to learn about those different things.

And I became best friends with him.

They owned a company called Dial-A-Pony where they would bring these horses to these kids' birthday parties in the middle of the ghetto.

It was kind of crazy.

We're in the middle of the hood, right?

And I'm walking, like putting kids on the horses and we're walking around.

And it's just like, it was surreal, man.

Just right on.

Yeah, walking on broken glass and things like that.

And that just became my thing.

And that became my escape.