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 ‘Damn another funeral, an-oth-er funeral’ is what Trigga uttered when he put down the phone. It was the old friend Boonie who had passed away. He had just finished talking to his mourning mama on the phone. Boonie just got murdered in cold blood. Trigga had a good relationship with him and there is one thing he said that Trigga will never forget until he himself is 6 feet underground, ‘Life is like a dice game, you can throw whatever and it may not always be in your favour the next thing you know your worst enemy could become your neighbour.’

His death however was no surprise to Trigga.   Many kids lost their childhood from guns, though not many people on the street cry no more because countless children have died for fun. Some people have started to celebrate it to death and whish they could die themselves, so they could get out of the vicious cycle which is life. He spent most weekends at funerals. How could he have a childhood when he had a funeral every weekend? This messed him up. It was as if he was running out of tears. Every night he cried, it was just like a daily routine. He was starting to get as ruthless as he could and his heart beat no fear. He was hiding anger under his skin that was building up, and this was going to erupt one day and reveal his malicious side. Smoking weed was the one thing that kept his calm but he knew its effects would soon be far less and the drug’s effects would ware out. He never felt so much peace from doing anything else. For him it was like going back to the womb. Trigga was just your average juvenile delinquent in the hood to start off with, but nobody knew the evil he would do when he got a little bigger!

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Some people in the hood he grew up in were crazy, far worse at first. Everyday he was seeing visions of people smoking and catching vapours. He was just influenced, all he ever dreamt of was to be a thug, but he didn’t realize that his dream would one day come true. No one saw it coming but He was to become the neighbourhood kingpin.

His father was a junkie, injecting death into his arms. His mother died from HIV, his grandfather was sentenced 65 to life as he was guilty of armed robbery and he was ...

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