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I spent Friday night with my neighbor, drinking on the front porch listening to eighties music.
The drunker he got the more he talked, by the end of the night he was in tears as was I.
I've never been so in awe of someone as I am of him.
He is an amazing, outstanding success story.
I adore this man and will forever respect him.
You see my neighbor is a washed up, black, 44 year old drag queen that calls himself "mother".
He wears a red silk nightgown when he isn't in his work clothes and has hair that would put Don King to shame.
Everybody knows him, he was waved to, yelled at and visited by several people just in the few hours we lounged on the porch.
He's a neighborhood celebrity only because of his heart!!!
It's huge and beautiful.....and broken!!!
He's so damaged that he helps the world in hopes that his acts of kindness will somehow dull his own pains.
He told me his story that night.... and it is something made for TV.
His parents divorced....
then he and his 4 brothers were taken from her by his father
Virtually given to his step mother to take care of.
They lived in the country and had no electricity....
He never went to school because he was put to work.
He even now doesn't know how to read or write.
He was sold by his step mother to grown men when he was 8 or so
and raped by them as she watched.....
He usually volunteered to be "sold" to spare his brothers....
He was the oldest!!!
He left home at 13 and ended up in California in the hands of yet again older men....
used up and put on the streets.
He was homeless for a number of years and roamed from state to state.
Sneaking into stores at closing time to hide, simply to avoid sleeping on the streets.
He found his mother when he was 19.....
She drank herself to death a few years later
One of his brothers shot himself less than an hour after she died.
He said that he wasn't going to let her go alone....
Said that when his mama died he was going with her.....
"and he did.... but it should have been me."
"I know it should have been me.... I still feel her.... it should have been me"
Imagine a double funeral.
His lose was two-fold.....
MY GOD, I couldn't have made it through that!!!!
He ended up in a relationship with a man that beat the FUCK out of him on a daily basis but gave him all the gold and diamonds he wanted so he stayed.... for years.
This man kept him under lock and key....
Told him where he could go and when.....
Until the guy got arrested.
He was convinced that my neighbor was cheating on him while he was in jail, got out and called him at his job and TOLD him he was coming to kill him.
He SWEARS he would have died that day if God hadn't intervened.
He'd tried to kill him before... why not try again today?
He died in a car wreck only blocks from his destination.
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....
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My neighbor has been a dishwasher at Applebee's for 7.5 yrs.
He walks to work every morning.
He walks home every day.
He doesn't have gas/hot water/stove because he can't afford it
He cooks on a hot plate
He pays his rent, pays his bills, is drug and aids free.
He has a beautiful home... beautiful furniture...
Lot's of figurines from his mother sit on a cabinet in the corner
Along side a picture of her....
smiling.....
.....
.....
.....
she must know that her oldest son is an inspiration to people like me.
I love my Gordon person.... he's AMAZING!!!!!!!!!
The drunker he got the more he talked, by the end of the night he was in tears as was I.
I've never been so in awe of someone as I am of him.
He is an amazing, outstanding success story.
I adore this man and will forever respect him.
You see my neighbor is a washed up, black, 44 year old drag queen that calls himself "mother".
He wears a red silk nightgown when he isn't in his work clothes and has hair that would put Don King to shame.
Everybody knows him, he was waved to, yelled at and visited by several people just in the few hours we lounged on the porch.
He's a neighborhood celebrity only because of his heart!!!
It's huge and beautiful.....and broken!!!
He's so damaged that he helps the world in hopes that his acts of kindness will somehow dull his own pains.
He told me his story that night.... and it is something made for TV.
His parents divorced....
then he and his 4 brothers were taken from her by his father
Virtually given to his step mother to take care of.
They lived in the country and had no electricity....
He never went to school because he was put to work.
He even now doesn't know how to read or write.
He was sold by his step mother to grown men when he was 8 or so
and raped by them as she watched.....
He usually volunteered to be "sold" to spare his brothers....
He was the oldest!!!
He left home at 13 and ended up in California in the hands of yet again older men....
used up and put on the streets.
He was homeless for a number of years and roamed from state to state.
Sneaking into stores at closing time to hide, simply to avoid sleeping on the streets.
He found his mother when he was 19.....
She drank herself to death a few years later
One of his brothers shot himself less than an hour after she died.
He said that he wasn't going to let her go alone....
Said that when his mama died he was going with her.....
"and he did.... but it should have been me."
"I know it should have been me.... I still feel her.... it should have been me"
Imagine a double funeral.
His lose was two-fold.....
MY GOD, I couldn't have made it through that!!!!
He ended up in a relationship with a man that beat the FUCK out of him on a daily basis but gave him all the gold and diamonds he wanted so he stayed.... for years.
This man kept him under lock and key....
Told him where he could go and when.....
Until the guy got arrested.
He was convinced that my neighbor was cheating on him while he was in jail, got out and called him at his job and TOLD him he was coming to kill him.
He SWEARS he would have died that day if God hadn't intervened.
He'd tried to kill him before... why not try again today?
He died in a car wreck only blocks from his destination.
....
....
....
My neighbor has been a dishwasher at Applebee's for 7.5 yrs.
He walks to work every morning.
He walks home every day.
He doesn't have gas/hot water/stove because he can't afford it
He cooks on a hot plate
He pays his rent, pays his bills, is drug and aids free.
He has a beautiful home... beautiful furniture...
Lot's of figurines from his mother sit on a cabinet in the corner
Along side a picture of her....
smiling.....
.....
.....
.....
she must know that her oldest son is an inspiration to people like me.
I love my Gordon person.... he's AMAZING!!!!!!!!!