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You from the Philadelphia area? You moved to Italy. I was, you know, hanging out in Germany as a youngster. How was it growing up in Italy?
So we were just started in elementary school, basically. So our parents just immersed us in Italian culture. So we were just surrounded by Italian kids. We were just learning the language as they were. So for us, it was full immersion growing up over there.
And being the only, uh, African-American kid not being able to speak the language, I gravitated towards the game. And in that game, you find a lot of, um, you find solace in the game. Then when you play with kids that might not accept you because you're an outsider, but yet when we come to play the game, that's my chance to to to get vengeance on them for not accepting me in. And that's where it kind of started developing. It's always been the outside.