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Furthermore, to add another complicated family member to J.D.’s life was his grandmother, who he called Mamaw. Mamaw was a complicated woman, who complicated J.D.’s life even more. She grew up with a violent lifestyle, that continued on into her later years, and encouraged violence with J.D. When J.D. was in grade school, he had noticed another student who was continuously bullied by a larger student. J.D. spoke to his grandmother about how upset he was for not standing up for the bullied student. Mamaw directed that, ““Tomorrow you need to stand up for that boy, and if you have to stand up for yourself, then do that, too.” Then she taught me a move: a swift, hard (make sure to turn your hips) punch right to the gut. “If he starts in on you,

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