text:  of how to be a man, you know, and to make the work and to make the money. So it was a lot of pressure on man to be a man. And he was that, though he worked all the time, but he drank a lot. So that would cause a lot of fights with my mother and him. Of course, I would get in the middle of it, and then my mother would use me, as I would say, as like a blanket, because when they would get into it, my mother would come to me and lay down on me and tell me things at a young age of nine