The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree

Through a world that looks so normal, when you begin to peel back the layers, you find the hell I called life. You will follow a child through a life without hope as my parents introduced me to poverty, drug addiction, alcoholism, and insanity. From the south side of San Antonio, a family destroys itself from dark corners of insanity kept secret from a lack of resources at a time when so little was known about the disease. When drugs enter an already bad family picture, the painting is further distorted. Fleeing a mentally disturbed mother who forced me to have more than one brush with death at the hand of a stepfather with a gun and a heavy fist, I was taught that you can kill, all in the name of love. This forced me to a life on the streets with a father I thought cared. A father with his own addiction that would take me to an underworld that no child of thirteen should ever see. With an in-depth look at the real life of addiction and the consequences, I will take you with me down this road and bring you to the other side, which is called recovery. Not just from the alcohol and the drugs, but from the heart.