I
come from a place where children are of shadow and isolation. Where
broken dreams heal themselves disfigured, in a silent world of desperation.
The wasteland of fragile young hearts left to die!
I
am Jesse Slane... mine would not die … it would live … and
live again!
My
father’s name was Robert. I don’t remember much of him because
he died when I was six. What memories I did have were blurry but I guess
he was fairly average. He gave me a Bible on my 6th birthday. Inside
he wrote "To Jesse, love Dad". Many times in my life, when I was lonely
or scared, I would take it out and look at his words for comfort. I’'ve
wondered a thousand times how my life would have been different if only
I could have really had a chance to know him.
My
mother's name was Mary. Small children cannot put feelings into words
but I always felt very distant from her. My mother had me but I never
had her. After my father died she fell apart and began her descent into
alcohol, heroin and eventually crack, from which she became hopelessly
addicted. For the next year and a half she had a different man almost
every night. What little money that was left after my father died was
soon smoked and drank away. The monster of her addictions soon found
us homeless and living in shelters. Her substance abuse quickly turned
to child abuse. I was "chains" of helpless little flesh wrapped tight
around her neck. She was quite literally "Of Human Bondage".
Her
resentment of being saddled with young child soon turned to anger. She
would get high and scream at me: "You are nothing – You will never
be Nothing!". As the drugs took their toll she started to believe I
was "the Devil". Once she started thinking that way my days were numbered.
I guess that’s why she gave me to the place where she thought
I might be saved. The place she left me was "The Sisters Of Mercy Boys
Home" Even though life with her was hell I begged her not to leave me
there. The last thing she said to me was "I will not argue with the
Devil!" I was 8 years old… I would only ever see her once again.
29
Ravenswood Court. That was the address of the Orphanage where she abandoned
me.The place where It was forever given away.Where I was offered up
like the pagan sacrifices of old to her Gods of addiction. She traded
the "chains" of me for the freedom of her new slavery.It was an Orphanage
run by Catholic nuns, and many times later I would reflect on the "irony"
of my mother giving the "Devil" to the "Sisters of Mercy". The Catholics
say "give us a child until he is 7 and we will mold him for life". My
life with them started at age eight. They are wrong about influencing
a child until seven… it goes far beyond that!
The
Bible says there are places on Earth that are as "hell"… damned
right, and that place was one. It was part of a State operated complex
with the Orphanage in one part and a mental Hospital in the other. No
one in the Orphanage was ever allowed near the Hospital. But there were
rumors that a few of the kids had ended up there. No one ever knew if
it was true.
Life
there was miserable … for a lot of reasons. It was unlike any
place I had experienced. I was terrified. Literally paralyzed with fear.
It was like an old prison: it was cold, damp and was made from old bricks
with no color. It was dark gray.
It was raining when I first arrived so the lack of sun made the place
look even darker. I stood in front of it. It was huge, six levels high
and about one hundred meters wide and I could hear strange sounds coming
from it like it was alive. The sounds were cries of discipline being
administrated. All those cries would live to die another day.
As
I was led through the massive front doors I remember I was shaking.
I had never seen nuns up close before and the long black dresses and
robes with the head-dress looked like something straight from Bram Stoker’s
"Dracula". At eight years old all adults look three times bigger than
they really are and with those outfits, they had a very militaristic
presence, as if they were God himself.
I later understood the visual images were all designed to intimidate.
It was something I would use with great effect later in life. "Give
us a child until he is seven…." They would be proud… They
taught me well!
The
first few months were agony. Everything and everyone was strange. It
seemed like they were all looking at me all the time with that "Where
did you come from" sort of blank stare on their faces. It all scared
the hell out of me. I knew absolutely NO ONE!
From
the window next to my bed I would stare out into the courtyard and in
the middle was an old well that was used before the property had running
water. It was referred to as the "Wishing Well" because it was deep
and it was rumored that more than one kid had gotten their "wish" by
drowning themselves there. For some it was their only way out.
Children
in the Orphanage are not quick to warm up to someone new. They've all
been hurt too many times by being taken away or having people they loved
taken away from them. They also look at anyone new as being competition
for them in the adoption game, although by then most of us were already
"too old" to have someone who would want us. We all lived together dormitory
style. Kids there were no different in that some were weak, some were
strong. There were bullies, but they were dealt with differently. They
worked for the nuns. If one of the regular kids got out of line the
"Sisters" would use their hand picked bullies to apply the "appropriate
disciplinary action". That was another way of saying they would take
you out and beat the shit out of you! All this so the sisters could
keep their squeaky clean image and not get "their hands" dirty. This
was the way order was kept by them. All of them except for one …
Sister Sadie!
Sister
Sadie was God, the Mother Superior, the Supreme Ruler, also known as
St. Cruella the "Bitch in charge". She ran the entire place with an
iron hand and no one questioned her authority.
She
was huge, about six feet two inches and around 250 pounds and looked
more like a man than a woman. She would stalk the hallways with powerful
sinister presence and she struck true fear in the heart of any kid she
would look at. She would walk around always in that black uniform, carrying
a silver walking cane with her at all time. It had a large silver cross
looming from the top of it.
She looked like a Nazi S.S. General but instead of a riding crop she
carried that fucking cane. Any kid that looked at her wrong got it right
across the knuckles or the back. Her famous remark always was: "that
was for something you did that I did not see or for something you are
getting ready to do!" How ironic her initials: Sister Sadie was "S.S".
I
did my best to keep a low profile over the first couple of years so
I wouldn’t be noticed by anyone, especially her. I was basically
a loner. I stayed to myself, I would eat alone, I never was a part of
any group activity. I learned to use my imagination and created my own
little world, so I would never be lonely. I had a world of imaginary
friends that I was the leader of. It was my invisible circus where I
was supreme.
I
was eleven and was beginning to become highly rebellious and extremely
resentful to any authority. The years that I had spent there had really
started to turn me into some sort of animal. I was caught stealing from
the kitchen by one of the Orphanage night guards. I was taken to my
class instructor and when I resisted "penitence for my sins" and refused
confession I let it be known: "I was fucking hungry!". Horror came over
the Sister’s face and her mouth dropped open. I was considered
"insubordinate" and appropriate action would be taken.
I
was then taken to the head office and given, kicking and screaming,
to the Lord of Discipline: Sister Sadie. Little did I know the real
kicking and screaming was just about to begin.
Once
a child was considered insubordinate, it was generally thought (by them),
that only an "official cleansing" wouldbe necessary to genuinely put
a child back on the straight and narrow. The duration of this "cleansing"
was different for each child. For some it was short and for some it
was long. Mine ended up being a one-year eternity.
She
took me to a part of the complex that was a separate building, away
from the main housing. My "cleansing" would be administrated three times
a week. At night. She held me tight by the back of my neck and marched
me through the only door in that God-forsaken place.
As
she pushed me through the door, there was a familiar smell from her
breath that I had not smelled since the last time I was with my mother.
It was alcohol, and for someone who was feeling no pain she knew an
awful lot about giving it.
The
room was dark and smelled like slow death. She slammed the door and
turned on one small red light that gave off very little illumination.
The room was about 25 feet by 40 feet and it was all concrete. It had
been a holding facility (or jail) a long time ago for the hospital to
hold and transfer mentally ill patients. There was one single drain
in the middle of the floor that was used to de-louse (body lice) the
patients years before. It had huge open beams in the ceiling and on
the center beam was an old pulley system, sometimes referred to as a
block and tackle. It was made with a steel chain and a large hook on
its end for lifting. I was so terrified I could barely breath. She tied
my hands behind my back and tied my feet together with old electrical
cords. She then made me lay on the floor and took the hook from the
block and tackle and hooked it to the cord that held my feet. Then she
raised me up in the air, upside down, and left me there for the better
part of an hour while she sat at a small table drinking her sacrament
wine and quoting scriptures from the Bible. After a while I was about
to pass out from the blood rushing to my head and then she started to
lower me down saying: "No, you are not going to pass out on me –
I want you to see and feel everything that is getting ready to happen
to you!" She untied my hands and feet and ordered me to take off every
piece of my clothing. When I didn't move fast enough she proceeded to
help me. She then tied my feet and hands again and back up in the air
I went.
This
happened every "cleansing" night but some nights were different. Sometimes
while I was hanging she would just beat me. The silver walking cane
of hers had a secret. She would unscrew the top that held the silver
cross and a long metal rod would slide out. It could be used in a great
number of ways. Her favorite was to hold it over a candle and heat it
up and beat me with it. The cross would leave burn impressions on me
that would last for weeks at a time……ultimately, a lifetime.
Others nights she would sexually abuse me in ways I cannot even speak
of … These were images that would haunt me for life.
A
year of this torment went on with her threats that if I told anyone
I would never be believed. Finally it all became more than I could bear.
I went to Sister Ann Marie who was in charge of the medical facility
and told her of the horrors I had to endure. She confronted Sister Sadie
with my allegations and Sadie then determined I should be placed in
the Sanitarium for observation purposes, as I was mentally disturbed
and no such "false claims" could be made by any "rational" child. She
was Judge, Jury and God all rolled into one and no one there dared question
her authority. Before I could be taken away I ran out into the courtyard
and with one desperate leap jumped into the "Wishing Well". My "wish"
was to leave that place forever.
I
never saw Sister Sadie in the flesh ever again. But she would forever
be in my thoughts and dreams.
I
awoke 3 days later from the coma I was in. The impact of the fall to
the bottom of the well knocked me out and I almost drowned. For days
after I woke up I began to have visions of who I really was. Revelations
of my true destiny and glimpses of who and what I would ultimately become.
I
was put in the observation room in a portion of the hospital that was
for new patients. I was watched 24 hours a day as the hospital staff
was warned (by Sadie) that I was "potentially dangerous, delusional
and possibly suicidal". I was kept there for about two months until
it was determined I was not a danger to myself. I was then put in a
ward for teenagers only. It would be my home for the next two years.
The ward I was in was "Asylum # 9"
Asylum
# 9 was basically a long rectangular room with 22 beds and bars on the
windows. Most of the beds were occupied and some of the occupants were
quite colorful. The first guy I met was "Spazmo". His real name was
Teddy, he was 16 and had been committed for strangling his grandmother
when he was 13. He had red hair and freckles. His brain was fried from
all the drugs he had taken before and after he arrived at # 9, which
is how he got the nickname "Spazmo". The attendants in the hospital
would use Spazmo to test drugs on and sometimes they would get him fucked
up just to calm him down. He was harmless when he was high but when
he was straight I’d get glimpses of how he got there in the first
place. But Spazmo basically worked for another guy there named Billy.
William Samuel Sims, a.k.a. "Serial Sam". He was there because like
all the rest of us he had been neglected by his parents. He was easy-going,
harmless looking, very well educated. He was actually genius level but
he was deadly when he was angered. The reason he was in "# 9" was he
too had been sexually abused by one of his school teachers when he was
still in public school a few years earlier. He got a hold of some methanol
alcohol and rat poison and put it in the air filtration system of the
teacher’s car. When the ignition was turned the mixture started
to burn. He said it was his "own personal – mobile gas chamber".
Justice, he said, for the crimes against him. Needles to say the teacher
never knew what hit him.
Billy’s
parents were ALIVE AND RICH! He had a constant flow of cash, which he
used to get the orderlies and attendants to supply him with anything
he wanted and all the drugs could be easily had. Because he had money
Spazmo worked for him, kind of like his own personal "Renfield", except
instead of flies and rats Spazmo got lots of drugs: valium, percodine,
codeine and ecstasy…. especially "X". If you think about it, how
else could anyone survive in a place like that. It was Hell and the
only way you can cope in a place like that is to stay fucked up all
the time. There was a lot of pain in that place… more than anyone
would ever know… except the ones that were there. I told my story
to both of them and they told me that there had been two other kids
a few years back that told the same story that I did. One mysteriously
died and the other committed suicide by overdosing on a bottle of aspirin.
I guess they felt sorry for me because anytime I wanted to get high
all I had to do was ask. My two years there were spent in a self-induced
ecstasy coma. For two years I would have no pain.
It
had been just over two years when we heard that Sister Sadie was found
dead. Because of Sister Sadie’s death, Sister Ann Marie was having
me sent back to the orphanage. I think she always believed me when I
told her what Sister Sadie had done, but was powerless to do anything.
Now with Sadie gone she was in charge, so to celebrate we were having
a going away party with dual purpose… Sadies’ going away,
and myself leaving as well. Because of Billy’s financial influence
he always had a separate little room that we used to get high in and
we called it the "Red Room of the Rising Sun". It was decorated with
old hippie décor with a lot of Middle Eastern and Indian influence.
It had tapestry rugs and huge pillows on the floor, some lava lamps
and a couple of huge water pipes. Billy’s parents were rich but
they were basically old hippies that had sold out their utopian dream
for cash. Billy grew up in that environment and loved the old 60’s
psychedelic influence. That’s why the "Red Room" looked the way
it did. It was the coolest place I had ever seen and we spent most of
our time there.
In
the time that I was there I had grown very, very close to Billy and
he sort of adopted me like a brother. I guess it was because our backgrounds
of abuse were so similar, it was his way of trying to protect me. At
the going away party that night the three of us had gotten really high
and Billy and I were talking. Spazmo had already passed out on the floor.
Billy told me that he wanted me to remember him and I told him that
I always would. He then handed me a note and he told me he wanted me
to read it because he was going to sleep. As I started to read the note
Billy reached over and grabbed my hand and it became clear to me why
he wanted me to read the note. The note said "I’m happy for you,
that you are finally getting out of this Hell and have a chance at a
real life, but for me there is only one way that I am ever going to
get out of here. You’ve been the only true friend that I’ve
ever had and I’m never gonna have another and I won’t stay
here any longer". It was signed, "your forever friend, Billy " I looked
up and his eyes were closed and as he was holding my hand I felt him
slip away. I found next to him an empty bottle of sleeping pills. He
had taken them all. I would never have another friend like him again.
I
was sent back to the orphanage the next day. I ran away less than a
week later and never looked back… I was 14.
I
wandered the streets and was homeless for two years. I slept in old
abandoned buildings, drug houses and any place that would give me shelter.
There I met castaways of humanity. The lost, the abused and the disposable
of society. They were all addicts of some sort. All of us looking to
escape the pain. We were all unwanted. What had we done? What crime
as infants had we committed, to be brought into this world and be "thrown
away" like this?. The Asylum was bad enough but this was a different
kind of hell. Many nights I would fall asleep thinking "all I need is
someone to love me" and everything would be different. . It was ugly
and extremely dangerous. A lot of kids I met had been sexually abused.
They prostituted themselves to stay alive and to get money to feed their
drug habits. It’s amazing how many kids who are sexually abused
as children end up selling their bodies as prostitutes later in life.
In some odd way they subconsciously think that whatever happened to
them as children must give adults pleasure, so if they continue to allow
it to happen they will find love that way. "Give us a child until they
are seven and we will set their ways for life…" Damned Right!
I
drifted to different towns but it was all pretty much the same wherever
I went. Until one day I met someone who would change my life in every
way.
It
was in a city center, when I saw a group of about a hundred people watching
a street performer doing magic. He seemed to have people hypnotized
with his illusions. I watched him closely and he was good… very
good. He then asked if there was someone that could help him in the
next routine. He scanned the crowd, he looked at me and looked away
and then came back to me and said: "You Sir. Could you come forward
and assist me?". I walked up to him and he handed me a sealed envelope.
He asked if we had ever met, which we had not and I said so. He then
asked me to ask three people to give me a number, any number. The first
person said 10,013. The second gave me 3,020. The third one shouted
out 993. The girl I had chosen added up the numbers. As she did, he
told me to open the envelope. In it was a single piece of paper with
a number… 14,026. The crowd was stunned. I went back into the
crowd and he did a few more tricks and when he finished the crowd put
money into his open magic case. The crowd slowly moved on and he was
packing away his props. As he packed, he had his back to where the crowd
had been and could not see me as I slowly approached him. "How did you
do it?" I asked. He still had his back to me but I could barely see
the side of his face as he smiled and said: "I was looking for someone
that would not fight me… I knew you wouldn’t". "Fight you?"
I asked. He stood up and said, "My name is Judah Magic". We talked for
a long time and he told me he chose me because he could "feel" me and
he knew that I wouldn’t not "fight him" mentally. He said it was
important never to choose someone who had conflicting vibrations because
those people would try to sabotage that part of his act. He said "I
knew you could help me and try to put a mental barrier in the flow of
the energy taking place". He said he had studied EST, ESP and telepathy,
but he also knew that it was a gift he had from his early childhood.
He told me "You too could have it… if you really want it…
What are you willing to trade"?
I
had been interested in those things for a long time. And Judah became
my mentor.
Judah
was an intense sort of a guy. He wasn't very big but he was aggressive.
Not in a physical way, but mentally. Judah had an aura about him. It
was an energy that you could sense and feel. He was one of those people
that had an amazing presence and people were afraid of him because of
it. He too was homeless and had been orphaned at an early age, so we
had an instant bond. There was a magnetic attraction between us and
we became inseparable.
We
got high a lot together and talked about life, religion and people.
We would drop acid and get into in depth conversations about the concept
of Heaven and Hell and the Good and Evil in all people. We both knew
that most people could be manipulated in some way. Some more than others.
We both knew that the world would kill you if you let it. We decided
we would kill the world… together!
The
two of us drifted from town to town over the next year. In that time
I began spending a lot of time reading about metaphysics and the occult.
I always knew I had unusual strong abilities of perception and was working
hard to develop my physic skills. Ever since I was fished out of the
"Wishing Well" all those years ago and I had all those visions I knew
I could see into people. Most of them I could see right through.
Over
time my personality and presence became stronger than Judah’s
and wherever we went people were drawn to me. The student had become
the Master. We began to} ‘recruit’ individuals we would
meet to become part of our group. I looked for people that were strong
but without direction, angry but fragile. Kids that never knew love
but were looking for a "reason to exist". I would be that reason. I
always liked the idea of a "clockwork orange" but my goals were much
higher. I wanted the World to know my name. It started out basically
as a "gang". The first one brought in was Robbie Taylor a.k.a. "Rockin’
Robbie". He was followed some weeks later by JoJo Stone and then "Mad
Max" Morrison. I named him "3-M" for short. All of them were thieves,
all hustlers of some kind and all had talented to achieve greatness
but they did not believe in themselves. I was their leader now and gave
them new names and I would refer to them as my "disciples" so it would
reinforce their belief in me. With a title like that and with mind control
and drugs… they would do anything I told them to. They believed
I had the power to heal and that I could read their thoughts.
There
were two girls that were brought into our "brotherhood" to become part
of our "family". Lucy and Mary were like all the rest of us: childhood
runaways, teenage prostitutes, thieves and beggars… all begging
for love and a place to belong. I referred to them as my raging ‘angels’.
They would do anything to please. They would steal food and cook for
us. They would clean our clothes and would bring in other girls from
time to time for our pagan celebrations. These "celebrations" were usually
on Saturdays and I would speak to them all about love and freedom of
the mind. Hallucinogenics (LSD and Ecstasy) were an important part of
these "celebrations" and during the course of them, ritualistic orgies
would take place. In these orgies one girl would be chosen as a sacrifice.
Not to be sacrificed mortally but sexually and of their own will. Everyone
would take them at some time in the evening. These were always done
in an open field deep in the county side at night.
It
was during one of these celebrations that I was conspicuously absent.
When I appeared to them I had a small dove that was dead. The celebrations
stopped as I blew my breath into the dove’s nostrils. The bird
then rose up and flew away. They sat as I took a knife and slowly carved
the word "God" into my forehead. Lucy and Mary licked the blood from
my face as I had sex with them. The others fell on their knees and began
to worship me as the new Messiah. The last face I saw that night was
Judah’s… smiling at me.
We
traveled around like gypsies from place to place. Any place where there
were people that would listen to me speak, street corners, parks and
any place where I could perform such "miracles" and make new converts.
We eventually grew to a travelling revival of several hundred and took
our own covered tent that could hold a thousand people and I could preach
about love and "celebration" and freedom of the mind. I would cure people
of disease and illness by faith healing. As time went by the covered
tent was replaced by arenas and films of me were being sold on videos
and DVD’s, and Judah was my right hand man. The World loved me…
but now we were big business.
The
magnitude of the phenomena of our ministry became truly frightening
when I would get small glimpses of myself and what I was doing to those
around me. Specially Judah. Had I been put on this Earth to do what
I was doing? Was I God? Was I a piece of God (in the sense that we are
all part of God)? Am I a prophet? Am I a messenger from God? Was I just
a man with my own message born out of no love? Am I evil? Am I "The
Great Deceiver"? or does God even know I exist?
These
were all a vicious circle of questions that had become living torture.
My soul in balance, my soul in perpetual transition, my soul the prize
in the eternal war of two masters.
Was
I in the Garden of Eden? If so, which one was I?
As in Revelation "out of my mouth
came the power to change" Our Ministry of Pagan love was now the
idolatry of me.
It
was in the midst of our biggest world-wide revival. In Time Square in
the middle of New York City. I looked up, and there, on the giant video
screen, there I was. My face one thousand times larger than life. Electronically
beaming like a great comet blazing through the sky. Lit up like a great
fluorescent beacon. There I was. No longer just some cult phenomena
the day of illuminated reckoning had come. I was "The Neon God".
My message was being broadcasted to television sets around the world.
The power of the electronic media is beyond comprehension, especially
when you can sell people the idea of love and immortality. It all makes
a monstrously powerful drug that dopes the masses, and once you get
them hooked you own them for life. It is true that "absolute power
corrupts absolutely". Then I was the King of all things corrupt.
It
was not so much the message as it was the messenger. It was all in the
delivery. It was a simple idea really. Give the masses false hope and
in return the masses gave me love
..and power. It was basically
drug addicts trading drugs.
I
gave all the disciples new names. It had a dual purpose. First to lead
them to believe that they were actually more important that they were,
but also, to give them the sense that they had been reborn by a new
father
me!
I
was at the peak of my ministry. It was in one of our nightly celebrations
that something caught my eye. With the light of the stage in my eyes
where I was, it made it sometimes difficult to see the congregation,
but there was an image that was half in the light and half in the darkness
that I could not clearly recognize. The image kept pulling my attention
in its direction. I stopped speaking and focused on the image. I asked
it to come forward and show itself to me. Slowly, three men and a singe
woman, naked, come into the light. We had a new follower in our midst.
I had not seen her face for nearly 20 years but still I knew her. The
last time I saw her face I was hysterical with fear and when I saw it,
the same feelings flooded over me all again. The face was my mother's.
She had abandoned me all those years ago and now she had come to "claim
her son". I was the broken piece of her life. An innocent little
heart, torn in two, and left to heal for itself. I never thought I could
ever have raw nerve endings exposed again. But they came alive with
every scarred pulsation. Was it the sight of seeing her in such a heathenistic
state of just seeing her at all that enraged me.
The
strange river of opposite emotions, hate and love, repulsion and attraction,
wanting to touch her face but erase it forever from my mind. I had been
in a safe place for so long but once again she had come and completely
destroyed my world. She tried to worm her way back into my life. After
the initial shock of seeing her again, I saw her for what she really
was
..trash without hope of redemption. Lost on an imaginary highway.
She was a pitiful vision of any motherhood. She had been dead in me
for years but never more than now. Worship me her God? Oh mama why'd
you come? She'd given and taken my life at the same time. I often fantasized
how would I react if I ever saw her again, but it's never how you envision
it to be. There are few pure emotions in life
Hate.
After
she was gone, nothing seemed to matter to me anymore. For a long time
I knew I was no son of God. I was no prophet. I was a phony, a con man,
a liar who was scared of everything in the world.
I
spent weeks trying to make some sort of sense of my life. I called my
inner circle of Judah and the disciples together to tell them I was
leaving and that I was not the messiah they believed in. I could see
the look of disbelief on their faces. All expect for Judah. He had been
the only thing propping me up for years to all the world. But now there
was a problem. This thing of ours was now big business and once you're
in, you're in for life. Their anger with me was great and they nicknamed
me "Neon Dion" to voice their contempt for me. A sort of sarcastic
mockery to their once exualted leader. There was a problem and the problem
was me.
With
me no longer willing to act as their puppet head. I posed a great risk
to the cult. Exposing myself in anyway would bring down our house of
cards. But I should have known Judah was too smart to ever let me get
too far ahead of him. Too clever to ever let this Neon empire crumble.
Their
unrest is great. They have plotted my death for the whole world to see.
They do not believe I have knowledge of it. I do. But it is not fitting
that it all ends this way?
Long
ago I came down from the mountain where the raging storm had thundered.
Unlike the burning bush of Abraham. I received no sign, I asked God,"Do
you want me?, The silence was a deafening roar. Then, my path was clear.
The great path from the mountain to now. Why then does the eternal conflict
still rage in my soul?
I
begin my descent of drunken power still tormented with the forever question,
the quest of the Holy Trail.
Is
there something out there greater than us? Is there a God? I hope so
because
I am not him
..