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As for Abraham, I don't think that he wants future success nearly as much as he wants the one thing that no one on this planet gets, and that's a do-over. He wants the success of “Kars 4 Kids,“ along with all the fame and the money and the women that came with it, minus the drug addiction and the poor choices.

That's the thing about Keith Malek--you can love him or you can hate him, but you can never, ever ignore him. Malek holds up a mirror to ourselves, and when we see our reflections, we either dig deeper to unleash whatever talents we have, or we end up in a crackhouse on the outskirts of Brownsville. He is that powerful.

I had just boarded the train and sat down when I saw your drivers license on the seat. I'm assuming that it fell out of your pocket, but I could be wrong. Maybe you like to travel to different states and intentionally leave your drivers license on a form of public transportation. That's fine too. It's not something that I would do, but to each his own. I'm not judging you, and like the old saying goes, “Don't knock it until you try it.“

“Watch. When we go back out there, the defendant will probably be in handcuffs,“ said Juror #2.
“Really?“ I asked. “What's he going to do if a spider crawls across his forehead? Do you think his attorney will brush it off for him, or do you think he'll just start smashing his head against the table? If he smashes his head on the table, the judge will probably think that he's flipping out again. What if a tarantula crawls on him?“

“Aren't you the guy who....“ He paused, as if he wasn't sure that he should continue but then finished with, “works at the bodega?“ There was so much suspense for me in that pause that he could not possibly be aware of. That pause contained the possibility of validation. He could've asked, “Hey, aren't you the guy who was the frontman in the Kars4Kids band?“ He didn't do that though, cementing the reality that I'm nothing more than a has-been.

To think that just six months prior, we had been opening for The Wiggles. That was a boring gig, for sure, but at least we still maintained our childhood innocence. That innocence was shattered on October 25, 2013. That was the day we opened for Motley Crue in Las Vegas. By the end of that tour, the cops were looking to arrest all four of them, along with their manager, on child endangerment charges.

My second book just came out. It's available on Amazon. It's Christmas time, so make sure to buy 50 copies for all of your friends and family. I'll also post a link in the comments section for my first book, Blonde Bombshell Fails to Detonate, which came out in 2022. It's almost universally regarded as the greatest book ever written. Buy 50 copies of that book as well. Thanks.