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...described driving around with one homeless gang member named Faro...
...Because they have nothing to live for, except their gang, their 'hood. They "claim their 'hood," -- pledge allegiance to their neighborhood gang -- and it becomes their whole world, their family. Their loyalty is fierce. The drive-bys are mostly "paybacks," revenge killings, sometimes for feuds that started before they were born...
...Some gang members talked to you about their lives with devastating clarity. One, Sidewinder, said that he does not want to have children, that he would rather kill his own child than live to see him killed by another child. Another, Hart, was so vulnerable, so sad, that you seriously considered raising him yourself...
...most of the conversations with gang members in your book take place in cars...
...them. Or they have no homes, and the children drift away. I have seen eight-year-old girls alone by the roadside holding up signs reading I WILL WORK FOR FOOD. What do you think is going to happen to them? All the time, homeless children turn up in gang neighborhoods knocking on doors, saying, "I want to claim. I want to be from this 'hood." And the gangs let them...