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Three things that you got in trouble
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for. I can't, I hate, and lying. If I
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said I can't, my dad's teeth would just
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start to go, "Excuse me? You sure you're
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not just having trouble?"
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I remember this one time I was going out
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to do my chores Saturday morning to mow
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the lawn and I I couldn't get the damn
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lawn mower to start. Checked everything,
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couldn't get to start. I'm going inside.
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I said, "Dad, can you help me out? I I
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can't get the lawn mower started." and
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he turned around, saw his mers and went
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and he got up, walked with me through
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the kitchen, through the garage, out the
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backyard, went to the lawnmower, messed
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around, pulled a couple things out.
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After about 10 minutes, boom, cranked
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it.
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And while the lawnmower was running
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right there,
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he came over to me and bent down and
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looked me out. He goes, "See, son,
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you were just having trouble." I said,
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"I hate you." to my brother. Because I
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heard the word at school and I thought
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it could make me feel like I was older.
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I thought it was like a a teenage soap
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opera thing and I was only nine. So I
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threw it out there one day at my own
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birthday party. My own birthday party. I
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said to her, "I hate you." And my mom
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stopped the entire party. 40 kids my age
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in the backyard. Stopped it. My birthday
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stopped it. Pulled me around the side of
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the house and he said, "What did you
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say? You don't ever use that word,
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especially to someone in your family.
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Gave me licks on the side of the house.
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And then went around, she said, "Draw
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your tears. Resume birthday party's back
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on." Don't ever use that word,
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especially to someone in your family. Or
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when I li When we lied. Dad couldn't Oh,
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he couldn't stand lying. If you lied to
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him, there was something about being a
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young man and I got two older brothers.
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having the steam and the courage to go
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tell the damn truth no matter what,
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especially to your dad and to your mom.
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We'd hug and he was like, "Hey, cut that
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out." But it would have been that.
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So, what did I learn from
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don't say can't that
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unable to do something you can even if
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you can't pull it off, you can go find
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help, which means you were just having
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trouble. What I learned from getting a
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butt whoop him for saying, "I hate you
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to my brother." Well, what I was
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learning is the antonyms to those words
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because saying I can't, lying, and
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saying I hate you were bringing me pain.
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So, the opposite must bring pleasure,
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right? Tell the truth, love, and believe
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that you can. Those were the values how
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I remember them getting instilled in me.
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And to this day,
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I still have them.