Not until just before I left, actually! I spent my life as a side show performer, traveling up and down the east coast. Mostly the 'exciting' shit was getting run out of town or accused of stuff I didn't do. Then when I was like seventeen or eighteen some drunk housewives offered me some cash to, uh...see what I could do with mitts like these.

[He holds up his fused, lobster like hands.]

So I just kept doing it. The show didn't pay much, I wanted to save up and get my ma a nice place.

And I had girlfriends that were like me, freak show people don't give a shit about what society says. But I only ever knew one normal girl who was into me, and...I don't think she really was. I'd really kinda like that, you know?

Sounds like my best friend, Amazon Eve. Tallest and strongest woman in the world. Our strongman tried something with her, she beat the hell out of him! Nobody messes with Evie. It's all bullshit, the whole 'man's the master of the house, women should be seen and not heard' thing. My ma was smarter than any guy I ever knew, ran a house better, too.