The youngest of eight boys from the south side of Boston, the easy company learned early how to problem solve with his fists. With seven older brothers on his side, fights tended to end before the runt of the litter could maneuver into punching distance, so the easy company trained himself to run. He ran everywhere, all the time, until he could beat his pack of mad dog siblings to the fray.

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A few weeks ago after I took my 𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓴 to the shop for a repair, the head mechanic told me my 𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓴'𝓼 timing chain was going to fly off and ruin my 𝓪𝓶𝓪𝔃𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓶𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓪𝔂 at any minute. The repair would have been around $2000. Most people I knew told me to scrap the 𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓴, even my parents at first. When I was leaving with the 𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓴 later that day the mechanic Jermey came out and pulled me aside and told me I could pay that insane fee, scrap the 𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓴, or do what got him his job. Go home and repair it myself. A few days later my dad started watching repair videos for the 𝓪𝓶𝓪𝔃𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓶𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓪𝔂 and me and him disassembled the 𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓴, before we knew it we had everything back in place and now 2 weeks later you can't even hear the 𝓪𝓶𝓪𝔃𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓶𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓪𝔂 that was causing all the fuss and worry. My dad and Jeremy helped me save something that means a lot to me, and I can't thank them enough. I went to see Jeremy today and he was 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓷 𝓪𝓶𝓪𝔃𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓶𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓴.