My brother acquired his first gun when he was very young, from a recently-fled drug dealer's residence. Now, he lived in a rural orange-grove area, and he shot at coyotes who killed his animals and at drug runners who used the groves for transport. Sometimes he joked that he only shot what moved.

I have always been a mother. When I was kid, I mothered my younger brother. I mothered my parents and even my boyfriends.

My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.

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