Bad:
kids at a young age
No plan after the steel mills closed
Bars... Partying. My parents did a lot of partying. A lot.
Weed.. they smoked it, sold it, grew it. I used to play with the weed seeds when I was 4.
Raised us to trust people. The world is too cold to trust someone’s words. It’s e action.
Smoking cigarettes around us. That’s foul.


Good:
Education. They valued it. My mom went back to college AFTER I graduated HS.

They loved me, gave me confidence and encouraged me to try anything I wanted.

Traveling. We didn’t go out of the country but we made road trips fun as hell. Shit, when the city got new buses we road them downtown like it was a field trip. We always hit the road in the summer time and my mom made sure we went to family out of town to make sure we were comfortable being away from home.

Weed. It was around so much as a kid it wasn’t a big deal in my teens. Didn’t even try it until college.