Before, when I began [the vice, drug addiction], well, it was cool, but because of it I flunked out of school and they kicked me out of my house, so I joined the boys [IAG], and then we started having violent fights with the militants [paramilitaries], and by then I was too involved... just wandering around, doing nothing but stealing in buses and buying vice, bullets and standing on the terrace.
Antes cuando lo cogí [el vicio, la drogadicción] pues bacano, pero por eso perdí el colegio, de la casa me echaron, me uní con los muchachos [GAI], ya de ahí a violentarnos con los milicianos [paramilitares], ya ahí lo tenía más avanzado… uno vagaba, no hacía sino robar los buses y comprarse su vicio, sus balas y móntese en la plancha [terraza].