“I play those incidents over and over in my head,” he said of his first few legal charges. “If I had never drove that girl’s car and then [the car with the stolen goods], I could’ve been probably in the military now and having a regular life.” Jobs were hard to get. Because of Ronnie’s felony record, his applications were turned down by Burger King, McDonald’s, Walmart, and Lowe’s. For a time, he worked at Food Lion in Maryland, driving an hour each way to get there. A cousin introduced him to cocaine dealing, he said, whereupon Ronnie realized that he could stock shelves for two weeks and not
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