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Armand Rodrigo Salinas was born to Luis and Marlena Salinas in November of 1981. The couple was excited, as they had tried for years to get Marlena pregnant and hadn't succeeded.
The birth was surprisingly easy, with Marlena going into labor when expected. Her labor was relatively short, and Armand was brought into the world.
When Armand was five years old, his father, an FBI agent of 10 years, was killed on duty during a secret service mission. This gave him a preoccupation with discovering secrets and digging up dirt on anyone he could find -- including his mother.
He became obsessed with his father's work and dug through all of the paperwork and documents he could get his hands on. Often, his mother could find him playing secret agent by himself in the back yard, using his toys as the "bad" guys and interrogating them under flashlights.
He began to withdraw, suspecting anyone and everyone of some sort of unspeakable crime or future crime against him. Eventually, he withdrew entirely from Marlena. From the sixth grade on, he trusted very few people and didn't do so totally.
Armand moved out of the house when he was 15 years old and didn't bother telling his mother or the rest of his family where he was going. He didn't want them to know.
He hopped around California, where he met Malach'hai and Reme Lyvyso, who became his best friends -- slowly. They introduced him to illegal drugs, which they claimed "The Man" didn't want people to have because of how good it made them feel. Armand thought this made sense, so he started using.
With Reme and Malach'hai, he moved around the United States, never staying in one place for too long. Years of drug use intensified his paranoia that people were out to get him -- especially his friends, though they had never to his knowledge stolen from or otherwise deceived him -- and he stopped making contact with his former friends altogether. He dove headfirst into drug use, working shitty night shift jobs at gas stations, corner stores, family-owned video rental places, and as a cook in restaurants. Wherever he could go that didn't involve interacting with people for more than a few seconds at a time was what he went for.
Being as he noticed that his most paranoid feelings happened when he was coming down off of a high, he decided that he would check himself in to Cherry Hollow, a place he'd heard about from the twins in passing as they gave him money before they moved down to New Orleans, Louisiana. He called his mother for the first time in years, asked her for money, then checked himself in the next day, hoping that he would receive help there.

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