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My son was Straight Edge for a few years, beginning in high school. I will never forget when he broke it to me.
He was living with his mom, and I had gotten tickets to a Dodger game. We arrived early, so were just sitting in the stands talking, when all of a sudden he stands up, takes his coat off and shows me his red shirt with the XXX black logo on it, quite proud.
My immediate response was, "oh fuck, he has joined some kind of gang."
I asked him what it was about, and when he told me their belief of no drugs, no alcohol and no sex until marriage I was pretty relieved.
I mean, if your kid is going to join a gang, it doesn't get much better than that.
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