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[cont..] When he met the kid he said "I'm a time traveler." The kid was confused. Gilbert said "You like science fiction?"
The kid said, "Yeah."
Gilbert said, "I do, too, and I'm a time traveler. I'm from the future. I went to bed one night when I was sixteen, then I woke up in prison as a fifty-year-old man."
That hit home.

"Knowing that the scared-straight method didn't work, Gilbert and the other lifers had access to the kids' files to find out not only what their crimes were but what their interests were. Gilbert saw one particular kid was a fan of science fiction like he was. [cont..]

"Even in prison, I had fellow prisoners doing my laundry and cleaning my cell. My dad was the same, but the prisoner was my mother She did everything for him. And she needed him, too. To feel like she had purpose. An identity. They were so fucked up together, but they were even more fucked up apart, so they got back together. In a way, I took it as another betrayal."

From doing heroin at age 12 to being in prison with Charles Manson, Trejo’s life story is almost beyond belief. Only at the 50 page mark, this is going to be one hell of a ride.