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"I said to myself, “Okay God if I die tonight, I’m going to die obeying you.”
"I was mad at my dad for destroying my family. He had taught me homosexual behavior was a sin. He had instilled in me that homosexuality was wrong, and suddenly he was trying to get me to justify it."
"I never realized the God that they serve is not the biblical God. The reason I didn’t realize it is because, as a Mormon, I never read the word of God."
"Sometimes a man is not grown at twenty-five, thirty, or just because he has a family or kids. He is grown when he takes responsibility as a man, you know."
... when I would come into the group everyone would stop laughing, and leave. I’m not saying that for pity. It’s just the way it was.
It was just terrible. So I’m taking the medicine and I am correctly diagnosed but I’m still not really feeling any better. I’m not free from this bipolar.
I knew better. I was raised better, but once I started and the more I did it the deeper into it I got.
It’s really hard to admit you’re an alcoholic and addict to gambling. It is hard to admit you’re addicted to excess.
As the school year progressed I became deeper and deeper involved in the knowledge of gang life, and eventually made a decision to get ”Jumped in” to a gang, which means you get beaten for about one minute as an initiation ri...