Inspiration for writing a book

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and tact hum we get going startfrom that from the bottom, keeping loving
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put righting your book? M hm, that's a that's a good inspiration.
It have to go back to myfather, It would have to because he
so my driving force. I wasan army brand. Okay. We moved
everywhere all the time, I didn'tsee like the people that I knew on

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the base were my best friends,you know. And once you move,
you gotta learn to talk and yougotta learn to fight. And being the
big kid, I had to learnboth because you couldn't talk out all everything,
you couldn't fight at everything. Sowhen when my dad he always just
encouraged, encouraged, and as wemoved around and has moved, to develop
some type of you know, justwhere I could be open to anybody because

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I'm a big person, and itsort of, you know, I got
that that bias, if you will, of like, oh the big guy,
he's big and dumb, or he'syou know, he's he's buying things
like that, and you know me, I'm the I'm the big uh.
You know. I had to hadto get through that. And I did
take martial arts things like that helpingdiscipline. But what it all came back

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to was my father. And thenI had a really good supportment at work,
friends and my mom. Uh.But my inspiration have to be my
dad. Now, there are somesome heroes as far as like I loved
Arnold Horsemageries back the love ourn't lovebodybuilding, My great grandfather or my grandfather
rather was mister Georgia, like youknow love. Yeah, so, uh,

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there's there is some of that inthere too. And my my mother
and my grandfather, my father's dad, he played dot holiday in like old
ghost Town. I give allan Hetaught me how to shoot with any shiit
shooter. So I pulled from thosewhen I when I actually started writing my
book. So there's some real lifestuff in them. But just you know,
most people don't know. So sinceso since you was like an army

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brand and you moved around so much, yeah, I was doing was so
you had to have an imagination.Oh man, it's like a a's like
a safe space for you because youknow you every time you probably got attached
to somebody, y'all was moving.Oh yeah, no, that's you know,
that's a great analogy. That's agreat way to think about it.
We did, I remember in nineteeneighty seven, and that's telling you how

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old I am. Right there.I was a little kid, though I
was a little kid. But wemoved from Germany. We're flying back here
and one of my best friends,Brandon West, I gotta get ahold of
that guy. But we went tohis house and had just been Christmas.
He had all this Gi Joes andmass toys and ThunderCats, you know,

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all the stuff that we had backin the day, transformers. And it
was horrible because he had been myfriend for three years, you know,
inseparable me him and Stephen. Stephenwas raked, one of my best friends.
Actually, you remind me of Stephen. You reminded Steven, really easy
going. He was a good dude. But we Stephen Jackson, we all
were good friends together. And thenI moved and it was devastating because I

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go from Germany in a barracks,in a base army people to the south
right in the Georgia just throw menbat and then it's just mind blowing back
in my eighty seven eight eight,you know you're coming in what just happened?
Everything was uniform, everything structured,Yes, imagination, and I had

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it a little lot of you,oh yeah, interacting, try to meet
friends with anything I could. Youknow, they make a love suit, yeah,