Steve Bunting

So every summer she'd come out and visit.

And I guess once my mom and my dad dissolved, she said, you know what?

Maybe if I take the boys and we go to Alabama, it'll be an easier life, right?

Maybe it'll be an easier way.

She can kind of find her own new way.

And she loaded me and my brother Mitch up.

We got on a Greyhound bus with a bag of sour cream and onion chips.

And we rode across the United States.

Holy shit.

Yeah, to Birmingham, Alabama.

You were younger.

say again older older sibling or my brother's younger than me yeah younger so you're the oldest yes yep so we uh moved to alabama and i got to grow up there kind of cut my teeth in the south and uh to be honest with you i'm very grateful for it all right i think i would have been better at surfing and skateboarding if i stayed in cali but i got to you know catch crawdaddies in the creek and go hunting and just do some of the good old southern stuff that i think is a little bit harder to come by an ocean side nice nice

How do you know that you came from a loving family if you were only three?

Yeah.

Well, you know, I was able to reconnect with them once I joined the military.

And then little things like going to my grandparents' house for the first time and seeing my height still etched on the wall, right, of when I was there and visiting.

Holy shit.

They still had my same original pictures of when I was a young boy on their mantle.

Wow.

Right.