When the phone rang at the Picard's: My time with Whitey Bulger and how I believe him

When I was growing up in South Boston I was a regular kid on the streets, no worries at all. My father was a truck driver and mother stayed home to take care of the 5 of us. As I got older I was seeing more of Southie the way it really was. It was a bag of roses at all, but instead was a city who had a mobster running everything. From the cops to judges to the bar rooms under his control. Along with all of that was the drugs that he was in letting in and making sure no one else would jump on this. He took under kids that had nothing and destroyed their lives by making false promise to them. These were kids who wanted out of the projects or a better life and though he was going to do it. Whitey Bulger was not who people believe he was. Including my mother who said he is here to proctect us, as time went by she finally knew he was not their to do that but to use everyone in Southie to get what he wanted.