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I interview my friend, Timothy Frye. Mr. Frye was born on January 08, 1976 Cleveland, Ohio to Mary Johnson and Jordan Frye. Mr. Frye prefers to be addressed as Tim. He is mixed, Tim's mother is mixed with black and white and his father is black. His dad left them when he was twelve years old but still came around every now and again. She remarried when he was eighteen. He is an African American male at the age of twenty-eight. He came from a middle class family, but his had more money than she led

him believe. He was an only child but he had plenty aunt and uncles to go around. His mother came from a big family. She had three older brothers, two younger sisters and a younger brother. She was the middle child. Having three older brothers they always were harder on her she said, because she was the oldest of the younger girls. That's why he felt that his mother was so hard on him.

Mr. Frye is a kind-hearted person. I thought I knew Mr. Frye very well until I did this interview. He showed a side that I never knew he had. Mr. Frye attends New Harvest Church. Mr. Frye currently stays here in Montgomery, Alabama with his daughter Nicole. Instead of going to college Mr. Frye joined the Marines at the age of twenty-three. He wanted to make a better life for his self because he said that he was going to end up dead or in jail and that is two places that he did not want to be. Mr. Frye felt like the Marines would be the best route to not only developing him into manhood but also providing him with the best thing to do. "I wanted to be a better person and open up doors of opportunity for myself. I wanted to provide for my family, buy a house and be able to live

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comfortably. During the four years he was in the Marines, Mr. Frye traveled thought the United States and around the world to Japan, Australia, Korea, Panama and the Philippines while traveling he was available to get numerous certification in computer programming.

Mr. Frye lives in Town Lakes in Montgomery, Alabama upper class area. He is one of a few black neighbors in the whole neighborhood. Sometimes he feels that he should have not moved out there, because he wants his daughter to feel what it is like to not be handed everything in life. Mr. Frye loves his daughter to no end, but Nicole's mother on the other hand, he say he could just live without. Mr. Frye weakness is he gives into his daughter too easily. As a child Mr. Frye he often found himself in trouble with his mother, his teachers and the law. After one day in his in later adolescent, he and a teacher got in to a bad disagreement about his behavior and he got suspended from school, his mother said enough is enough. That was the last straw for her, Mr. Frye elaborate on how he tried to explained, and tell what all was said but she did not want to hear it. She gave him a serve whipping and locked him in his bedroom with only his bed to sleep in. No T.V., phone and games, nothing that he could or would enjoy for some time playing with. That is when he felt that the only person at the time he could ever trust betrayed him. That why he spoils Nicole, because he wants her to have a better life than he did. But many times Nicole will ask for something and her father knows she does not need it but he will give it to her anyway. Nicole knows that her father is a push over and personally that is why I

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think that she wants to live with him other that her mother. When it comes to giving Nicole anything she wants, she got to get it.

Mr. Frye likes to make up excuses on why Nicole needs unnecessary items. Once when going to the store, Nicole wanted a very large pack of gum and I looked at him as if she did not need it and he replied "it keeps her quiet at home." Nicole has enough things at home to keep her quiet, but it is like he just can not say no to her. Nicole knows when she is with me; it is a limit on what she can get. And if and when she gets an attitude she knows I will put her back in her place quick and fast. Mr. Frye knows how I am about how he spoils Nicole. It hurts me to see Mr. Frye's face when he can not give his daughter whatever she wants. Nicole on the hand she does not care because when she gets whatever she wanted ten minutes later it is thrown in the back of a closet or in the trash. Nicole knows that I am not trying to take her father away from her or move between them Nevertheless, Nicole starts to act childish, when another woman other than her mother in the house, as if they are a threat. I feel that is was because of the relationships that her father has with women. That is another weakness that her father Mr. Frye has.

Mr. Frye does not let woman get very close to him personally. He will talk to women for a while but when things start to get too serous he begins to bag away form them. He said sense the relationship with his mother was bad, he felt safe not getting into a relationship with women. "If you do not let them (woman)

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in they can never hurt you," Mr. Frye said as he looked in my eyes as if he saw the same characteristic in me.

Mr. Frye and I have been good friend for three years now. He and I met through a friend of mine when he and Mr. Frye were in Australia. We hit it off right away, Mr. Frye told me he had a daughter and spoke very highly of her. Mr. Frye also told me that he and woman do not get along very well and I had ensured him that I was not the average woman. After meeting Mr. Frye we agreed to be just friends.

Mr. Frye did very well in our first interview. At first he was acting silly and