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Life History: Early life for Johnny Hendrix wasn’t of the average status quo when it came to normality. Johnny was born in a voodoo shop in the French Quarter of New Orleans. His parents were not exactly ideal for what you would want a parent to be like. Johnny’s mom was addicted to every hard drug known to man. Johnny’s dad was a porn star who was always off filming somewhere. Johnny didn’t have any siblings. He was supposedly a mistake himself. His dad said that while he was shooting one of his homemade porn videos with Johnny’s mom he accidently got her pregnant with Johnny. After Johnny heard this he felt like he had no purpose at all for the world. This is where Carlino came in.
Carlino is not his real name but Johnny could never learn how to spell it. After Johnny and Carlino met they instantly became best friends. Johnny was really into marijuana at a very early age of around the elementary category. Soon after Johnny and Carlino met Carlino was just as into it as Johnny was. So they decided to start a drug dealing business and sell to other kids at school. They decided to mix their marijuana with oregano so they could make more profit. This is where all their con artistry began and it just got more and more drastic as they got older. Carlino was a first grade drop out. Johnny tried staying in school but dropped out his ninth grade year. So the only way they could survive was through ripping people off through their business, because neither of their parents provided for them. So that’s how they lived.

Relationships: Johnny and Carlino were best friends all throughout their childhood ever since the day that they met. Then they both met Lisa and both fell in love with her. She tore their relationship apart for a while. Johnny’s relationship with Lisa was a friends with benefits type of deal, but Johnny wanted to be more than that and Lisa wasn’t having it. Johnny’s relationship with Susy is not what

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