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