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A serious man with long dark hair and a beard, wearing a brown t-shirt and jeans, stands in an indoor setting with a crucifix in the background.

A serious man with long dark hair and a beard, wearing a brown t-shirt and jeans, stands in an indoor setting with a crucifix in the background.

Thomas Frank (mixed: Native and American make sure he's standing up right (looking in my direction) “When you took baths, you’d stare at your brown arms against your white legs in the water and wonder what they were doing together on the same body, in the same bathtub” (216). Raised Christian, heavy fear of god from his mother and his time in church. Has a drinking problem. After drinking a lot, he can enter “the state”, where everything fades away/aligns/becomes well “The hard part was singing. You’d never been a talker. You’d certainly never sung before. Not even alone” (212). -Low voice. The bass (212) “Your voice is low like your dad’s” (212) -(214): Physically. Inherited his dad’s sunken, slightly dropped right shoulder. The limp on the right side (Gangta lean). “You walk with a slightly dropped, sunken right shoulder. Just like your dad’s. The limp too, right side… some lame attempt at gangsta lean” (214). “You’ve cultivated to look more like a statement of your individual style and less like an old basketball injury. To get injured and not recover is a sign of weakness. Your limp is practiced” (214). “You’re one of these big, lumbering Indians. Six feet, two thirty, chips on your shoulder so heavy it makes you lean, makes everyone look at it, your weight, what you carry” (215). “The chip you carry has to do with being born and raised in Oakland. A concrete chip, a slab really, heavy on one side, the half side, the side not white. As for your mom’s side, as for your Mehr sehen