Life Story - Anton G.

Life Story Number: 
156
Name: 
Anton G.
Life Story video: 
Location: 
St. Louis , MO
United States
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recording date: 
Wed, 12/01/1999
transcript: 
Hello, my name is Anton Green. I was born in Trenton New Jersey. The east coast not from here. But I was born from Prince Jones which was 29 and Elena Green who was 19. Pretty much I had a, kind of a hard life. Both of my parents were like really heavy drug users and stuff like that. But pretty much my childhood I was kinda between my parents, two parents that were kind of an unstable house and my grandmothers and my aunts and my uncles and my cousins and everything. I kinda grew up in the streets, the street life ya know scene. I pretty much the first years of my life I was kinda like, with a gettin' into trouble in stuff 'cause I didn't really have any positive role models or anything in my life. All knew was, pretty much the streets. In about, probably about fifth or sixth grade some, some people I guess people from Princeton university they came into the inner city to do like their community service hours they had to do for, ya know, a certain amount of credit hours or whatever. And I had a person who just came into my life and just kinda ya know made me know that there's something worth grabbin' and gettin' in life and so I, kinda lost touch with him but he did something really good in my life and then he wanted, ya know kinda wanted me to make something of myself. So, and then I started getting more and more into my grades. And then, by this time I was probably in 6th grade I moved to Alabama with my mother and she was in drug rehab and she kinda got her life straight, so I moved with her and she just got married to a stepfather I kinda hated 'cause he's real mean to me and everything and he was a ya know recovering drug addict too. So I lived with them for a couple more years and then I moved back to New Jersey. Actually that was in pittsburgh when I moved with my mother and her new husband to Pittsburgh with some more family. And so I was living with them for about two years and then I moved back to New Jersey with my original family, got kind of homesick. I was livin' there was going to school and my mother would come and would visit every once in a while and, and that's when I just got, kinda got a new relationship with my father again. And so I was kinda livin' with between my father and my grandmother. And my mother would come and visit and she came back to New Jersey once and she relapsed and she overdosed on drugs and she died. And so I mean, that really tore me apart, I really didn't know where to look so, I got, ya know, I got with some people in school, this was when I was kinda like first goin' to high school, And I kinda got, ya know, I was lookin' for somethin' so... I don't know. I heard of something in my high school called the Bible Club and I got some inspiration from those guys and that's when I first accepted God into my life and so I met some kinda like life-long friends. About that time, I don't know, I was doin' pretty good in school and I never really thought about preparin' for college or whatever so, when I graduated from high school I didn't know where I wanted to go so, I saw a flier in the guidance office and I just said hey I'll go there. So I went to Evangel College in Springfield Missouri and I met my girlfriend which I am very much in love with. And then I transferred to Southwest Missouri State and now I am, I'm taking off a semester 'cause my father was paying for school so I'm gonna pay now because I want to do something with my life my own self. So this is where I'm now I'm in St. Louis living with my girlfriend and I guess that's pretty much it, so this is my life story up 'til now. What's next?