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Brent Lawrence Welding was at the time, in his early thirties. He has brown hair, brown eyes, and likes to think of himself as “right” because he’s “white.” an open white supremacist who covered the windows with “the south will rise” posters and confederate flags to hide the sun and showed me the barn where he made meth was the man I came to know in a span of 5 months, and was arguably the closest thing I ever had to a father figure. This known con man was my mom's current boyfriend, and after my grandmother had kicked my sister and I out during a drug induced rage my mom took us to live with her the boyfriend she had disappeared with months prior. A green 70’s style spring couch on metal legs with a fishbowl arch floor lamp overhead in the small living room was where I slept for the next two months, as I would get up every day for the last days of eighth grade. …show more content…
“When I was in school, I liked to trick girls into thinking my teeth were fake by tapping on them like this” he’d tell me, taking his nails and playing a rhythm on his front teeth,
“how would that mean they’re fake?” I

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