00:00The same way that an artist can make substance use look appealing, I like to be the guy that
00:05makes recovery look appealing.
00:07I own sober living homes and I go back into the same community that I once poisoned with
00:13the lifestyle I lived and pull people out of there.
00:16Because I believe in order for a person to change, one must change its surrounding and
00:19an environment.
00:20The first time I ever took my first, I have a brother that passed away at the age of one.
00:26It loosened me up.
00:27It gave me confidence.
00:27It made me more sociable, I like to say.
00:31My brother passed, I think, when I was 16.
00:33We just had comforters on the floor and he had just learned to walk and he was walking
00:38playing with a cable wire and then he got to the TV.
00:41He started like holding on to the thing that the TV was on top of and the TV ended up
00:46coming
00:46down, hitting his chest in the cable box, hit his head.
00:49I called the ambulance and they stayed outside with him in the ambulance for like an hour.
00:54I didn't understand it.
00:54Then rushed to the hospital.
00:56He went into surgery.
00:56At the time, I had just moved from New York, so I was a man of a lot of faith
01:00and I was
01:01just telling myself, this is just God putting me, testing my faith.
01:04By law, they couldn't remove him off of life support.
01:07They basically told me that my brother's a vegetable, but by law, they cannot.
01:10In the family, we all made the decision to unplug him.
01:13I want to say at that time is when I lost faith.
01:16He's an angel, right?
01:18And then he's gone.
01:19So you have to point fingers at someone.
01:21So I think that's what kind of ended my relationship with God.
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