Crystal Lafontaine and Hugo Rene Alvarado Palomo

00:04 Okay, my name is Crystal LaFontaine. It is August 9th in Lansing, Michigan, and I'm interviewing with my boyfriend, Google.

00:14 Hey, my name is Google Alvarado.

00:17 This is August 9020 and I'm here with my girlfriend Crystal.

00:29 Okay, if we can start well.

00:33 Where can I am looking higher interest lower? We don't have furniture yet. We just moved into this house and and give me a little work here first move.

00:47 Yeah, but real news.

00:49 Yeah, instead of just getting a bag and going to a new location and we had to us which internet set up water and gas and

01:03 No appointments and everything is supposed to move ya the first time when you came over.

01:27 The real the real Country House

01:37 Everything was like 15 minutes away.

01:47 What is the best house we have so far?

01:51 Windows light

02:01 I think the United States but what am I like 1990 and

02:07 You know I got divorced and then I moved my point.

02:13 And I didn't know anybody except for my neighbor on the south side of my house until 2014 relay 2014 when I met Renee.

02:27 Funny because we share the same middle name and the same birthday.

02:32 And then I started learning too much about that.

02:40 Yasso

02:42 It was so many people coming and going after I noticed some people that I didn't need to know.

02:54 1 mm

02:58 19 no 2015

03:07 What happened before you got there?

03:15 I was in jail and Rehab.

03:23 No, it was it was.

03:27 When I was young I when I was 17 years old, I remember being biking with my lion I was

03:37 Turn everything that I knew that I would come across a job and it was just you know, that's where I have a problem in 2000. What's the Killer Tomatoes?

04:07 When I was in Middle School

04:10 I have known people that died my best friend died. He froze to death in the field of he went to sleep in and you know, it was so cold so I know her best friend of mine got run over by a bus my uncle got run over by a bus and they were both so I knew about alcohol and dependency and ice skate Guatemala City and I went to leaving this Farm. Thank God my friend gave me that chance and I swore and you know, I'm going to go straight and blah blah blah. You know, how are you going to make a promise to yourself? I'm never doing this again.

04:53 When I when I met you when I started going around knowing people in the neighborhood and you know Renee had a problem with you now with drugs and

05:03 I was trying to save her and Haley just occurred to me recently that God bless my motivation. You know, I have seen so many people died needlessly.

05:15 You know, is this this desperation to get wet erase your memory?

05:21 I'm thinking I think the reason why people do drugs is so they don't have to feel they get numb instead of dealing with their emotions.

05:38 I know what I need. You know what happened and the name of the house and

05:45 Use

05:48 What do you do when the police came and took her kids?

05:58 Yeah, I wasn't there.

06:01 Oh wow.

06:05 Excuse but I came over.

06:09 I told her we were staying there in the same room because the kids will not go to sleep without their mom might as well sleep in the same room, so they will sleep and I can get dressed and I can go to work and you know be rested and you know, she wanted to smoke.

06:36 You got up and I got so mad.

06:40 I'm out I left and I went to sleep on the floor to the garage and I work the next day and they were police all around the house. Oh my God.

06:57 What's going on, you know how to do any of that policy of adults.

07:04 The front door in the officers, like are you the owner of the house? And I know what who are you just sit there and La walking in and out of the house to steal uniform people, but they would like to play a close look like the black tapes what's going on?

07:36 Eventually, I knew that.

07:38 Because that lady died

07:45 So, you know call 911. Oh my God. Now I'm going to be waiting on somebody to say something.

08:08 Kids lost their two

08:12 Are you going to work?

08:15 Something everything and Instagram

08:20 Neighborhoods. It's like every neighborhood Latin America and people are either.

08:36 Driving

08:58 That's what I never thought that you would love it if you would not.

09:04 You would not from there.

09:07 No Love in the city and graduated high school

09:18 Manager of Subway and works its Taco Bell and then met the wrong guy and

09:25 Got introduced to heroin.

09:30 And not all my money. I lost my job because

09:35 All I was worried about Woodstock getting

09:39 The next picks

09:42 And then I went to jail and them rehab and

09:49 Dino Dan

09:53 So I had to go back to the

10:00 Hello there, and then

10:02 Then you move to Lansing from Detroit and I worked with you a few times and then we start talking again. And then I moved out here. That was what I don't understand things. Like I never like I said, I move it and I live there in Five Points.

10:23 Fan for years not knowing and not wanting to know anything and your mom grew up around 8.

10:38 She grew up there or

10:46 Neighborhoods West 2nd

10:50 Yeah, and then that's where she was killed.

10:54 Murdered

10:57 How you said you were at the wrong person and they said if you don't take the blame for this I'm going to kill you and your family.

11:17 So she took the blame for it and did not here as in prison. So I was two years old when she went in and then I was thirteen when she got out and it was like meeting a stranger.

11:32 But it's your blood into stand in the kitchen and then we were so close now, we're like sister and

11:44 My grandma didn't like you and was making comments and have rules and like would make time and she would sit next to me and I was like, why don't you just said on her so she got tired of that treatment and went back to bring more and then she's walking home back to her friends from her friend's house or Dad's house and someone killed her. So I'll be there doesn't look down the sidewalk.

12:16 And I've been able to use her whatever in the drug drug dealers have money and everything.

12:48 Really in Ogden

12:55 Abuse over the website. I was sitting with grenade front porch and this guy to the cops are pretty right behind him. And then okay leave it in the house looking out the window.

13:25 I think I did when I went out there and everybody left.

13:33 Can you do this?

13:39 Over the house on legendary

13:42 Disabled women what was the name of the girl that was?

13:47 Abuse pipe the penis pipe

13:57 I was like I lost the house being I think November 2000.

14:04 16

14:06 I only got foreclosed Let It Go in a bankruptcy and they told me you know, you have so much time to get out and the last minute and then it was too late.

14:31 And we have nothing but

14:34 Oh my gosh, and Renee just got up and walked right now. I have my stuff.

14:50 Moving packing it. I'm putting whatever pictures clothes whatever, you know, and I walking out the front door with the keys house.

15:00 And I'm telling him any like yeah, she was by here drive me a river I gave her something and she left you going to do at your house.

15:16 And I got to run.

15:19 I remember what they did was one of the business free was on WhatsApp.

15:26 The first Molotov cocktail Came Crashing through the window

15:31 Yeah, well the first one.

15:36 Rites

15:41 Do that, but they were yeah, we were sitting right there because it was a Christmas tree a carrot in its side in the corner. And if you want to get going through you will have shoots why they're leaving I was sitting right there, but the second time.

16:01 He was like

16:03 O clock in the morning.

16:07 Yeah, it was before I went to bed at 2 and 4. I heard something go to the window and it landed in our bed. And then I woke up went off and got everyone going to get out to let them know we're alive.

16:33 Yeah, I know. How do I just remember I want to have a part of what you're thinking of things are not Moto can exposure. I always slept in the clothes. I have two cats.

17:12 Then we slept at the neighbors house until we got to the hotel.

17:20 Yeah, I left my bicycle.

17:25 Do you have to drink diamonds. We're like, I was like, yeah, we have a wake up.

17:43 How do I get to work?

17:45 May I lost track of everybody? I talked to music. I like at work and he told me and you know it.

17:54 I'm going to fix you want to be there and help me there was no nothing. No electric so I can have been used to that thing since I

18:22 I remember watching in there and this kid is riding their bicycles and they just stop.

18:32 How much do I owe the house?

18:50 Right, you can see from the toilet in the basement.

19:02 We have to move water from the bar from the neighbor's place a toilet. And then he had the slippers. Are we putting the electric? Oh my God.

19:17 We had some good times and getting the bus get the boss Myers.

19:37 Ultra 2015

19:42 I had I told you I had like two mask collection of records and musical instruments.

19:55 I dragged out of the storage unit into his house in the east side.

20:06 But by the time I got here.

20:10 You remind me so much.

20:16 1987

20:19 This place when I left.

20:29 I didn't have a job.

20:32 Philippe by my drinking and drugging and I went to this Farm they were no mattresses.

20:39 You know, there's a house now and it was cold because he was like

20:47 All my clothes I had I just put on top of me just to stay warm is Lake Columbia House Mason.

21:09 I just left on the floor next to a mattress for me.

21:13 Anyway, I moved and I told you to get for Christmas 2019 nice Christmas.

21:37 I stand up for you.

21:47 No, I was.

21:51 I don't know. What I guess is that part of me that that grew up around me and never let me go help somebody hurting when it first opened.

22:06 You cops are a lot in a short. Of time when asking people for years and years and years.

22:18 How many times can you have?

22:23 I like 9.

22:26 Because it was always.

22:29 Turn and I never wanted to

22:32 And I wanted it take it serious. I'm like they're going to force me to do this. I'm leaving. I know it was never my decision. So when I made a decision for myself. When I stuck

22:46 Right God I'm clean from everything.

22:51 After school and get a job and

22:58 I'm taking care of responsibilities saved up for when I

23:05 Going to go reinstate my license.

23:09 Damn, you not only disappeared within yourself with addiction, but you let everything go around you and you're in love with ya. No ID. No nothing is wrong.

23:26 Around a circle you're not going in there trying to reach satisfaction, but you're never going to be satisfied. When you finally come to terms with yourself seems like an open useful and insightful information is coming in and out of the same.

24:06 Sly Cooper Mission rehab

24:14 Gadsden Municipal life

24:17 In an attic

24:21 Functioning alcoholic

24:40 Yeah, but it doesn't happen. That's why I don't miss that because of the withdrawals.

24:58 Feeling bad just for five minutes of feeling good when you drink yours like I'm done.

25:07 11 months

25:10 Grandma stream it's going on three years of heroin and two years old.

25:26 That's another thing. That's crazy.

25:30 Old pics of your

25:34 I mean you were on fire.

25:39 Early in life because you're burned out.

25:45 How many worlds are there they used to come and go?

25:52 Buffer so much

26:00 Jaden

26:11 Hotel Extended Stay

26:15 Used to come down with me and we can smoke a cigarette when you get your cookie.

26:31 Looking back everything is going through it.

26:40 Yankee standings

26:54 I'm driving the car with no driver license.

27:23 Is this actor of the neighborhood? That's my lighter you want to get back with you or?

27:47 I think we should build neighborhood.

27:52 Well first you need neighborhood.

27:59 Spelling like recovery houses.

28:02 I grant I just people driving so save up money and create like get back on your feet recovery houses for people, you know, and help them get their license get the birth certificate or Social Security people when they lose a lot of things and they moved to a lot of places and do that or get stolen or something. So just help them with that and then help them with employment and give them a place to lay their heads and something else whose mind doing that and I've been through it so I could relate to them.

28:48 It's like now.

28:50 You want to get your life and I'm clean and I want to do all this stuff and but don't happen that way it takes up send patients cuz you're waiting for a bed that like, yeah, we can go do next week. And even your wheel is not going to wait 5 days going to find somebody in the street and they going to put something in your head. Are you going to beg for something your mind? If you're not ready to get back to doing the same stuff?

29:43 Walking Dead

29:47 The Help

29:53 In the rise of them addiction is going up. Yeah.

30:06 And I know there's a lot more overdoses happening to

30:12 But I'm happy that I came here because I don't know anybody.

30:17 And I want to keep it that way.

30:31 I'm so happy that.

30:34 We made a new making it. Yeah, I like to go to.

30:46 Thank you for your support.

30:54 Life is hard enough by herself.

31:02 Thank you for understanding.