Central Coast, California, Sept. 2012
I had just graduated high school that May at 17 years-old. I was city boy based in Chicago, and was suffering a broken heart. I was in search of something, a cognitive shift, perhaps. So that June I bought a one way ticket to NorCal where I fell in love with the state. The traveling itself was an amazing experience; I saw my first weed farm, I was offered to do porn in San Francisco, I dropped LSD in Las Vegas, and enjoyed the fresh Colorado air. I came back to Chicago, had my 18th birthday and decided I would move back.
I did what any 18-year old would do – get a job. My friend offered me a job at a burger joint his old man owned, and gladly accepted. They were greeks, and I, being an American born to pure-bred Russians, we shared one and only one thing in common: fucking women, and talking about fucking women. Within the first few minutes of my first shift, my friends father, Cris, asked me:
"You ever fuck a chick in the ass?"
To which I responded,