Despite his brutal schedule of work, the young dude had managed to get fairly decent grades in high school. Many nights, the poor teenager cried himself to sleep in frustration.Īfter the now 20-year-old man finally graduated from high school, he struggled to figure-out what his future life would hold. All of this weighed heavily on the spirit of the otherwise out-going young man. He loved the young dude like crazy, and even though the kid was two years younger than Mark, the cute little fucker always made him proud. He also found himself becoming a substitute parent to his kid brother with his dad's frequent absences.
Mark loved his father and he tried to help by working two part-time jobs while attending high school. His father struggled to raise him and his younger brother Brian as best he could, but being a long-haul truck driver made it hard for him to properly supervise his young sons as they grew older. When he was just 16-years-old, his mother was killed by a drunk driver in an automobile accident.
