Black And White

Published: Dec. 28, 2019, 4:35 p.m.

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Robert felt like he had a difficult childhood, dealing with an alcoholic father.\\xa0 For some reason, his father\\u2019s harshness was directed towards him as opposed to his siblings.\\xa0 And while he doesn\\u2019t know why, Robert was compelled to sample his father\\u2019s alcohol as young as five years old.\\xa0 By sixth grade, he was smoking marijuana.\\xa0 He remembers taking a school trip while intoxicated.\\xa0 It wasn\\u2019t long after he progressed to cocaine and heroin.

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