Franklin Macias was born into a family of six brothers and two sisters on August 4th, 1991. Raised around gangbangers and drug dealers, at a young age the author knew he lived a very different life than the majority of his friends. With his mother and father always going in and out of jail, he struggled for a positive parental figure to follow. At age seven, Franklin was placed in a foster home.
He spent the next twelve years of his life in and out of foster homes and a motley of different placements. At age fourteen, he dropped out of school and began living the somewhat simi more...
