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Homeless at 9. Abused at 11. Is this Venice Beach Man's homelessness by choice? - YouTube
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chad yep we're here in venice you're
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homeless tell me about it
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it's not too bad for me i've been
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homeless most of my life so i grew up
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on the street kind of know the whole
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vibe how it goes
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homeless in hawaii homeless in oregon
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homeless here
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uh that's pretty much it for
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homelessness mainly in oregon hawaii in
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here
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but now you said you're first homeless
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at nine years old
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yeah what happened my mom lost her house
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so we lived in a car ended up moving
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down here
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lived in the car here moved back lived
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in a
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sort of apartment there she had abusive
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relationship we fled the state to hawaii
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i finished sixth grade in hawaii then we
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uh we had to leave the homeless shelter
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so then i stayed in the car with my mom
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for a week
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and then i was like 11 just on my own
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running around
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occasionally getting beat up by pogrom
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men taught me how to take a hit and
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stuff like that though and how the
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street works
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i was 11 years old running around on the
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streets by yourself
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yeah that's crazy yeah no kid should
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grow up like that
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no a lot of bad things happen a lot of
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bad things
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uh yeah and then sorry it's okay i'm
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stronger for it then we ended up coming
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back here
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being homeless here or not here to
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oregon to the mainland
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and then after
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a little while i ended up getting in
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trouble went into foster care
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and then i ran from foster care when i
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was about 13
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and i've been on my own since then i'm
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28 now
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oh my gosh from nine to 28 most of it
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homeless
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yeah from 11 to 28. pretty much
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homeless and alone yeah
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and you seem happy
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yeah well you learn to take it with
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stride you know
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it's just the way life goes i guess i
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mean i don't like being homeless but
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like that's what i
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mainly know you know so like you've
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gotten used to it
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yeah making the best of it yeah a house
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is okay but like
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if i had a girlfriend or something it'd
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be a lot better to have a house
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being like a house that's just me it's
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kind of boring
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you just sit there like watch tv i don't
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watch tv much i
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well you grew up with nothing
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yes right now i got shorts
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a pair of pants and a jersey that's all
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you own yeah
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no socks no shoes no boxes i know i
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tried to give you socks
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you wouldn't take them because you don't
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wear shoes yeah i don't have shoes
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i don't want to walk around in just
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socks
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that that's california for sure oh yeah
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i'm missing my two front teeth i got my
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whole face reconstructed with the bat
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and my arm broken right here oh my gosh
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and how old were you
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that was about three years ago on my
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birthday i was blacked out
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and a store clerk gave me a dirty look
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came back later
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still blacked out and i guess i beat him
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up a few times i don't know i don't
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remember
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and he came out with the bat broke my
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arm there there and hit me in the face
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and then he kept hitting me when i was
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knocked out
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and then i had 95 of my face
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reconstructed oh my god
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yeah now when you were a kid
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out on the streets a lot of abuse yeah
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yeah yeah physical sexual
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mental yeah i'm sorry it's okay
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well i know you keep saying that and i'm
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gonna keep saying that i'm sorry
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grow up like no no no it sucks it's
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pretty rough
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uh an ex-cop i woke up and he was
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jerking me off
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my grandma molested me other dudes have
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perved on me
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and i grew up i kind of grew a defense
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mechanism if i'm sleeping and you touch
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me
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i just swing in my sleep and then i wake
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up with like a bruised elbow or
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bruised hands i know someone tried
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perfect on me and then i just went back
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to bed and they didn't get it
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didn't work right right so i built up
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certain defense mechanisms
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mechanisms from stuff like that it's
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kind of like a ptsd thing
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well that's what people don't understand
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about homelessness especially somebody
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like you that's
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grown up outside yeah you know what i
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mean here wouldn't you step
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this way you're getting in the sun a
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little bit yeah well that's perfect
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and
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you you've adapted to a life
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on the streets yeah for sure and a life
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of survival
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yeah yeah yeah it kept me skinny i guess
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in tan
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hawaii in california yeah you would you
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didn't get 10 in oregon
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i did i did yeah yeah i did in oregon
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too but i would purposely go out and tan
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because i knew i was coming here and
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yeah if i would have been really white
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and came here it would
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suck yeah that would be burnt so bad
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yeah so what's your future like
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my future i don't know man
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if i can get a job or because i've never
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really actually had a real job
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being homeless my whole life i mean i
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don't even have id
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oh [聽__聽] i got like i told you
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some lighters and then a pair of sweats
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a jersey and then these shorts and
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that's
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that's all the stuff i got i've had less
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though so
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i've had just shorts and nothing else
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and still survived
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so i mean at least i got the jersey and
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the sweats
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and the lighters what would you want
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people to know about children growing up
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outside
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don't do it it freaking sucks i mean
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yeah it might make you straight minded
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some things like that whatever
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benefits but it's not worth it well it
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wasn't by choice no
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you were not homeless by choice no but
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still like
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help them i guess it's it's not an easy
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life it's pretty rough
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i got scars all over my body well where
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would it be where would it
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help i mean would have been to help your
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mom stay
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that she could have provided or
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both i mean i was abused by the time i
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was like
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two so i mean that gave me anger
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problems and stuff like that
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yeah maybe even before then too so i
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mean
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that's what people don't unders you know
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the childhood trauma
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you know i i say you know lack of
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affordable housing childhood trauma
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you know my gosh yeah when [聽__聽] like
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that happens
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most people tend to run away and go do
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their own thing and find out who they
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are
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be their own person you know what i'm
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saying like
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just be themselves like not be
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controlled or
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have things pushed on them they want to
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be able to like have the
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owner in control of their own life you
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know like
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by the time i was 11 i didn't think i'd
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make it to 13. i thought i was gonna die
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there's a poker man that would beat me
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up and stuff and then i met this dude
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that looked out for me give me hotels
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and food and stuff like that
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it's pretty cool he's like one of the
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main father figures in my life
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his name's ambassador by the way from
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hawaii yeah it's a way cool dude
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i never thought i was gonna live to 25
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right
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i'm 28 i'm still here how is that how is
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that
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it's crazy well you still have a long
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life man i know i do
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hopefully it gets better i don't know i
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sleep on the beach i sleep on the grass
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sleeping on the beach you get a bunch of
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sand in my hair and it's really annoying
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love the ocean about half you all eat
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out of a trash can
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so i don't starve i don't know just
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gotta do what you gotta do i guess
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i've been eating out of a dumpster since
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i was a little kid at least i don't eat
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like gross stuff like i had to then
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you know but it's still like my favorite
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thing it's embarrassing it sucks but
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like
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that or starve i literally have no money
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don't really care about money yeah i
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could use it but like
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if i had all the money in the world i
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always just want to
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do the right things and help people
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start organizations that help people
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help unite the you know you know other
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continents so
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we can do what we're supposed to do not
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be divided be united with one country
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suffering help that all other countries
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come to help it out
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you know [聽__聽] like that stuff like that
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i like to think that i like to think
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about and i would like to do but like
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i'm just one homeless person that i got
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a lot of plans
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you can do it you can do it i know but i
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need to become rich
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how am i supposed to be rich be a model
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be an actor
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i guess maybe i don't know i ask myself
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that all the time
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right things i want to do that i don't
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have the money to do
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yeah so i don't know we'll see where the
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future goes
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i'll be alive or dead for it probably
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alive i'm pretty strong
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if they couldn't take me out when i'm
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like 10 13 11.
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then i don't think they're gonna take me
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out at 28. so i'll probably be alive for
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it
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if you had three wishes what would they
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be help unite the earth
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help save the land and ocean
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you know like the ecosystem all that
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one more one more get people to wake up
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see what they're doing every piece of
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trash they throw on the ground isn't
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hurting just
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the earth hurting themselves get people
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to be nicer and care about each other
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you know world peace type stuff
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great wishes thank you appreciate that
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thank you very much for talking to me
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yeah you have a great day god bless
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