He grew up quickly. Having learned the tricks of the trade, street smart and savvy, he got absorbed into the underworld like fish to water. He soon got into trouble with the law, was dragged numerous times into the police station, his buddies bailed him out, but he remained unfazed.
Soon his drinking got worse and he became a chronic alcoholic;thrown out of the accommodation he shared with his live-in partner, disheveled and unshaven, he began living off the streets.
All because his Mom had abandoned him as an infant, she was a teen then;he had no anchor, no mooring, he turned out to be a vagabond.
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