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but not just his mom,
his play mom...

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but I'm proud to be his pastor.
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My dad, he was my idol...
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'cause I never saw
a man do so much...

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and make so much
of the day like he did.

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I saw him
as a father figure...

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and a role model
at the same time.

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He was my friend, also.
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I see, like, lights
flashing in the back.

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Then my mom comes,
and she's telling me...

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she's like, "I'm gonna tell you
your dad committed suicide."

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You know...
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shot hisself in the head
in the backyard.

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You know, came home,
we found him like this.

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He was the only child
that kept it...

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kind of quietly inside of him.
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I felt as if...
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I was his only child
that didn't cry...

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you know, at the funeral
like everybody else did.

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I didn't, you know,
rant and rave.

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So for a long time,
I thought, you know,

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does that mean
I loved him any less?

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And I realized
it doesn't mean that.

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It's just that everybody
mourns in a different way.

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I've been in a lot
of family situations.

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I've been shot
by a family member.

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My grandfather
shot me in my arm.

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Right here.
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Went in through this way
and came out through here.

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I was trying to protect
my mom 'cause he was drunk.

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And I was looking at my body,
looking at my baby's body...

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and I seen blood.
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We didn't know where
the blood was coming from.

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Chance was standing
on the right side of me.

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I don't know how...
how the bullet hit me...

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and the gun was pointed directly
to my little brother's back.

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She was holding
my little brother.

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It must have been God,
'cause turned the bullet...

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from when it hit the middle,
it must have turned the bullet.

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It ricocheted off
of something...

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and went straight
through my arm.

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If the bullet
hadn't have turned...

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the bullet would have hit
my little baby.

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It would have tore him up.
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But it turned, and it got him
right in this arm...

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and it went in, and it went out.
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I had to go to a crackhouse...
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to get my mama
out of the crackhouse.


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