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daily routine


an incipient relationship jason and melissa both are head over heels for each other both very much in love very much confused very predictable both of them were born in public hospitals both were brought home via public transportation raised in public housing became typical high school dropouts in public schools statistic of public assistance they both reside in the land of grim hysteria the land is no other than the bronx they work in an environment where they are daily patronized don't even realize it they come home to what think is a safe haven and embark series of arguments mental and physical abuse they been robbed at least 5 times and even at that, that's all they remembered divide by two and answer is how many times they were incarcerated plus two more times they were robbed combine they were shot at 5 and shot at 8 2 children who were force to eat mustard sandwiches (no salami, no ham, no cheese) only beverage of choice is a faded kool aid drink pretending to drink it as if it was tea they must fight against rats and roaches over who gets to eats the molded bread that was purchase at fine fare jason and melissa could have a decent meal if mommy and daddy didn't blow their salary recklessly whose figures make the pay like allowance money on their daily fix young jason was contracted with an S.T.I with no insurance, he doesn't have the support and right health care so what does mommy and daddy do? they don't know nor care so they lay their kids down to dream these event has not only becoming a ritual, it's an everyday daily routine
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