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Alright. So basically this is just, you can just if you want to begin our wherever you want to begin with your life history. If we include. Okay, so where were you born? I was born in Mexico, right then get in Cleveland for three years. I love this city is I can be the safest place in this country. Aha. This country's great just too much drugs, feeling nervous and we have, we are happy been in this country. I've been in. Miami is Larry, alumna, Denver, Colorado. Houston, Texas, Dallas, San Antonio, New

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York, how did you travel back and forth and why did you go down? This is quite different places. Covid-19 go. I don't know when I'm doing when I don't get a job here. I moved somewhere else, please Ike or anyway, I guess, right? And what kind of job do you usually do? And it's very easy to watch it. This one. Sure. They are cotton. Cause as far as I know, once I get a job as a dishwasher, I get everything language, special food, necessary and money all the time. That one makes me. Hey, enjoy each second of my job. Right? Where were you born in

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Mexico? Family fund family bus and what was that? Like Oh, he's my country. I feel sorry for my own country. But in the monitor, you can work from Monday through Saturday. Never get enough money to dress. This kind of clothes. I can wait. Uh-huh. What did you? How long did you live there? For? All my life. I've been hearing this country for about 10 years, aha, only three in Cleveland, but I don't planning to move from Cleveland. You've got to stay here today. He'll probably go to Baltimore. Because what happened yesterday. Yeah, the Baltimore you killed. My Indian. I was on the first row. I was crying my eyes out. Yeah. Now I'll be done in my dinner today. I don't know. I almost cry in front of him. He's my dad. Give up forever and he know he gave to come back next season. We actively Tesla elected and will be his Lumber to any which he want to play 22,000 next season. He go to make four more Wings. Why do I keep want to do it? So he make I told him. You got to make the dream come true and you got to make me the happiest man in the world. As a friend. I gave him a letter. I got a picture with him, right? This is my control are white thinking. The nice person. He I gave him three. Pick three, pictures me and him ha ha. And he's my biggest tip. I just tell him. I like you of that father or as a brother.

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So, where did you meet him before game time here in Cleveland? Jr. He live in Miami, but I cannot go to Miami, right? So when you, in Cleveland, since you've been here, have you mostly where do you usually say? So? Oh, after you during the winter time, after in the shelter in the summer term, after your side because my India, Eric, I can't afford to miss a game for nothing that works. Sometimes it goodness. I don't need Tell me that because I love way too much. My Indian over the limit. Both I take advantage of my toe, my situation, if I'm homeless and I don't have nothing to do that, that that there's a place to be for me, right? But I don't care for nobody. They're not part of my family. So they don't respect you attack a human being. So I never liked the kind of Peep. So what do you do when you hang out like terms

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is hanging out with in is what do you do when you're out of town or deep work? But Stadium at all, or one day, go out of town. I'm just hanging around in the library, listening to music. Who is the music Magnum. I try to listen the happiest music in the world. So I try to be happy. No, it works till they come. I just take one day at a time. Now. These are way too

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long. Winner time, uh-huh. Can it be a hard winter? Yay. Pleasure. Without my Indian this season. My cargo bike. I wish they'd fire my heart. We are 43. We are winning 4-3 in the ninth inning, every clone Pitch. Perfect on the last two game yesterday. He was pitching one inning, perfect timing. I don't know how in the world, my heart go go to put José Mesa, but we are on the go. Run up and this is the pleasure that that's why I quit. They fired him personally for the Baltimore one yesterday, I think about going to Baltimore because I think they are that they're the team to be. I think they go to the worst area. So if you are always been a faithful fans always when I when I was 18 years old 21, I play pro baseball in Mexico, and I have an actor my life. Sighs. So my life changed forever. What happened? I give an accident. Okay, cut my I seen that I regret nothing since that happened. I am nobody be so trusting of work. He used

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to be a server. Used to be one of the stars and Bohemia. That's why I love poem are basically as a person. Here. I talked to Walmart a lot of time he know me, so he called me coming in. I took picture with him with him and in his car and he know me that the kind of players are like it hard for the pan, right? Omar and then it thank you for being that way because I like you because that way you are not because the numbers the number you put on the scoreboard that's up to you. But personally, I like you as a person because I won't pretend years ago. people like you most as a person goes up at goes to Good number. You can put on the scoreboard to that that to do. So. So used to be used to be a pro baseball player. Yeah, for three season. Did you make any money yet? Oh, yeah. Not going to lie. I have two cars. Two houses, a lot of money, but I gave the accident after that. I felt everything. I invite some about a 10 friends every day, every day. That one like was Heroes with, right? That one. I want their their hero. They hear the hero, right? I taken to I take him to my house to drink every day and night they went to work. I'll pay you what they will I tell them what we what Come to drink with me. I pay you what you making the job. So I just want to die, but I get my God. Don't want to die. Now, India of lost yesterday. A day before the Serie start. If my India loot, in home the game, I gonna die. I got a drink to that now. Just lie after the game. I went to the plants, stay in the drink till they close and I guess my garden. One next day. The God. My God is still good for me to

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keep me in this work. So, how did you said that? Cleveland was a a lot less violent than any of the other places you live before? Yeah, I go to go is a dangerous city. I don't like, but I never that bad. What's this is not real, the Gores work. What sorts of things did you see in Chicago and Cincinnati the in Chicago, my own people are all gang and Eric. So my own people, they robbed me twice, even I'm a homeless but that back then I gave up small ready with her phone. That's it. That's it. So they're wrong with that. But in this scenario, there's only there's only black people were 80 or 90% of them are. I respect they know they don't have no respect. They don't have known no brains. You know that workers. Can they not even know how to talk? How to express that their sales in front of some people who respect them? Cause I gotta, you know, if, if you are my friend, if I respect you, what not. You you deserve respect me one, tough enough. I don't need your friendship and that kind of sight, I showed you that way. That way, that way I wanted to be You are not that way, forget about it. I don't need you

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crazy. So what kinds of things do you see? Like what kind of things do you see as disrespectful? Oh, yeah. Let me give you a good example. I get cigarettes with me all the time. Right? And I don't drink like them out of smoke that crazy crowd, but they make him crazy. I just move my cigarettes and drink beer, maybe once a week or something up. This. These people when they see me, always clean dress. Nice. So they know that some money they come to me, always they come to me, always asked me for a cigarette. That's a deal respect thing because if you going to be my friend, don't ask me all the time for a cigarette. Ask me the once a week or twice a week and I give it to you, but not another word. The time. Also, you got money to for beer, how in the world, you don't got no money for cigarettes, why you come and ask him a lot of people. Why are you coming up me and don't ask? You feel for cigarettes first. If this b.o.b. Would make Ruiz. To do things. You don't know about their think. There's something about. I don't think not with you. I don't like the kind of people, because I know, I don't play around. They going to play around. I take three or four, guys, but I always got my gun and I don't intend it here. If any trouble or told Lina I have to do, sit, if I get to be in jail, I will be for a good reason because I because they were roaming. Let's go. So you carry a gun around with you. Oh, yeah. All the time. Nobody will love our

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yellow lever and you never been like, hell problem. We all know. I never came the problems with them. That's why I never hang around with this because that what they, they can't cause

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problems. I don't. Well not all the time, but With me, I never cause a trouble to nobody. They don't have no respect for people and I don't like that kind of Rage with them. So what was it like growing up in what part of Mexico's with? I forgot the name of the town that you grew up in? For example Leaf has CU that month the time of lepers in from that's about eight hour from Laredo, Texas or Brownsville, Texas.

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Okay. So this is more Northern. So yeah, I'm not east-northeast 78 hour from the from the Rio Grande. Okay? In the river and what did you what did your parents do? How they died about five years ago? Five years ago de

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Beaufort. What did they do? Why you were growing up in? So They give me or like for like one that go to school, teach me the way how to be. Uh-huh. Thanks to them. My God. My God, have a try. Good. Beautiful life for me, become a pro baseball. But my accident, I never go to

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forget. How did your accident happen? I was guarding. Some three, some Grass more grass, without material. By doing the master at the country, got the girl. And I broke my own, a Sbarro. One of the glass of the Mayan x-bar. Come straight to my eye. The grey break my, I think that happened. I'm just Thank you. My India's, my India's keep my India's keep giving me life, the India. Skip

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like me going India. There is mud wrestler, is because them. the reasonable theory of size because they I just love way too much baseball over the name. Nobody cares. That, that way, I don't have no friends to because when I go to the India today don't want to go, I want to go, if they don't, I don't need hello dear. I don't need you, right. So, what? Okay, I got a lot of questions. Okay. Why don't you just tell me after how, what made you decide? And when did you decide to move up to the United States? And how do you Dad? How did that? How did that change your life or whatever to come to this country? Because of my accent. I have that after I have that accent, they give me a good job in Mexico. Promotes. I was mile to you, smiling to you and feeling good from outside me to the pleasure, but from the inside, I just can't

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stand it. So they give me the best job. That job any job I wanted but I just come out because I gotta feel good. But from the inside. Not from the inside where it were the big feelings are from the inside, from what you got inside. Not from what you look. Look, alike from the

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outside. So I think, then I just go to take one day at a time in this long way too long. Winter time in my, India coming knife. After April, I go to start to leave again. That's it.