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I'm just curious as to what other NTers have been through. For me, it happen in the 4th grade. I just moved from Texas and became patnas with my firstblack friend. His name was Andre. Being a country boy, I didn't know anything about the urban lifestyle. I didn't see drugs or violence where I grewup, in Texas City, Texas. But this experience changed my life because Andre was hella cool. He showed me the ropes to how life was in Oakland. As far asdressing and cutting out some of my Texas vocabulary. Hell, I didn't even know what the word fart meant, when I moved to Kali at 10. Little did I know, mybest friend, at the time had a dopefiend for a mom.Other classmates would talk about his mom and called his mom a dopefiend, yadadayadayadayada. I didn'tknow what the word dopefiend was until this crazy ess day. It was recess, and we were out playing on the playground. All of a sudden, all the kids just startedgathering around the fence by the baseball field. I decided to go over there to see what all the fuss was about. They were pointing and laughing at this onelady in a tanktop and some beat up rock faded jeans. She was dancing around the sprinklers, strung out off of crack, . The principal came out first to tell thekids to stop making fun of her, but you know how kids are. The police had to come escort her off the baseball diamond, while kids were laughing. Meanwhile, mybest friend Andre was crying in tears of embarrassment, but I can see, at the age of 10, that there was some deeper pain (To me, it felt like Andre wasthinking, why she couldn't get off that stuff?). My training of thought at the time change from being a 4th grader to an adult comforting your best friendin a time of need. I was walking with my teacher Mrs.Lowe while he was crying. And right then and there, I knew the world wasn't fair. That experienceopened a mental portal to me. That we don't all have the same families and lifestyles. So I ask you NT, whether you're from the suburbs, country,ghettos, or city, what made you lose your innocence as a kid?