He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.
-Leonardo Davinci

Well Liza, I suppose I can tell ya my story. There ain't much to it really, and some of those things I'd rather forget. But I guess that ain't gonna happen, ever. Just gotta live with the memories. At least that's all they are now.

I was born and raised here in New Orleans. My parents cared for me like most parents do and I had a pretty good childhood. It really wasn't until high school that I had any problems at all. When I was in the 10th grade, I met Tina. At first I thought she was the greatest thing in the world. She was nice, pretty, cheerful. It seemed there was nothing that could get her down and that she was a great person to be around. It seemed. So I ended up askin' her out. I really liked her and was really happy when she agreed. We went out for a while and every now and then I would see flashes of another Tina that I didn't know at all. I just assumed they were little moodswings. Hell, maybe PMS. They never did last long so I didn't think much about it.

After a few months, she ended up getting pregnant. At first I was scared. I was only in the 10th grade still and what would my parents think. I told 'em though. They ended up takin' it better than I expected and said they'd help to take care of the baby once it was born. I felt a lot better about it and started to work harder at school. I also got a job so I'd at least be able to help feed and raise the kid when it was born. Well I don't know how Tina's little mind works, but she started to get more and more nasty as the pregnancy went along. I put up with it and kept with her though, I thought it was just from the pregnancy. My mom said that happened occasionally. It wasn't until about 7 or 8 months into the pregnancy, after we could feel the baby, that I came home to find out that she just decided to up and get an abortion. At first I didn't believe her, but the fact that she was no longer obviously pregnant really told all. I was devistated and instantly left her, not that it mattered to her at all. My parents were upset as well, though they tried their best to cheer me up. Nothing like that worked though and I just started to drift away from most people. I finished school though, never bothering to even look at another woman throughout my time there. After I graduated from high school, I upped my hours spent at my job and just overall spent alone.

It stayed that way for about a month. I then came across an asshole that was messin' with some kid in the alley, threatenin' ta kill her. Well it pissed me off and I ended up goin' in to kick his ass. The guy didn't stand a chance and I just left him there and sent the kid home. I was on Araņa territory when it happened and Paco ended up seein' me take down the asshole. He ended up approaching me and so I joined Las Araņas. I got the nickname Hielo, which means frost, because of how cold I am with people. It took me a long time to even get close to any of the Araņas though eventually I got at least a bit closer to some.

Shit went down, you probably already know about it, and Las Araņas ended up joining with Las Panteras. It was a little after that that my life just seemed to turn right around. I don't know what inspired her to do it, but a woman ended up tryin' to win me over. It was real weird. Women usually stayed away from me after the whole thing with Tina. At first I was real resistant, but she kept tryin', and I'm glad she did. She ended up givin' me my baby back. Since Tina had gotten the abortion so late, the baby could survive outside her body and Anna got someone to bring him back from the dead. No one's ever done somethin' so great for me. I'm one hell of a lucky guy that she ended up liking me of all people. She's a great woman and now I have my baby back to add to it all. I'm as happy as I've ever been, even though we're right in the middle of all this shit, and I'll face anything to keep everything goin' all right. Guess I got a new kind of hope for the world now. A hope that I thought died long ago.

But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.
-Mother Theresa