I wonder if this is his girlfriend that committed suicide?
He had a girlfriend commit suicide??? Fuck. Didn’t know that.
"I had a really hot girlfriend and was very self-conscious about what I was wearing and couldn’t afford nice things and got in fights because her ex-boyfriend was a year older and the mascot on the football team.
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Before anybody in my class made it out of high school, I was in a continuation, which I also got kicked out of because my friend Bart was also in the class and got into a big fight, which the teacher had to break up and did not want either of us in the school anymore. My girlfriend knew it but had started dating Bart to make me jealous. He had a gun and we didn’t want to piss him off because he would walk around with it.
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Before I ever had my first pro fight, July 5, 2000, Bart had a party at his house. The night before, Stephanie had told me she loved me. After the party, I was gonna go back to her house with her brother, he was my best friend, but some friends weren’t doing well and headed to my house. So I had to go.
An hour later I got a call from her mom saying, ‘Are you with Stephanie?’ She took me up and down by my Grandma’s house next to their trailer park.
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There was a wreck on the freeway. I jumped the fence and saw only one car and ambulances.
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She had walked and killed herself on the freeway. The girl I loved more than anything had tried to kill herself for the third time and succeeded.
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She was gonna go to college. She was an avid student and and was doing everything I couldn’t while living in a trailer park where everyone was doing dope. Meanwhile, I focused my whole high school years worried about what her and her friends would think if I lost a fight to her ex-boyfriend and football friends.
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After that, I was grown up. It was all over. I wasn’t a kid anymore. I won my first fight in the first round with a choke and all I could think about was her, just like when I was in school.
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I would run seven miles and back to her grave just to promise her I would make it as a fighter like she knew and had told me she knew and was proud of me."
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Damn!