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Thomas Andrew Martin was born to Desiree Olivia Martin on November 18, 1979. Desiree was a young mother, barely of the age of seventeen by the time she gave birth to her baby boy. She had kept her pregnancy a secret from the rest of her family, in fear of what they would think of her, only to end up running away while she was six months pregnant. While there wasn't much that she could do with only a few hundred dollars she had been saving from summer jobs and her part-time job at McDonald's, Desiree ended up in shelters and benefiting from the kindness of strangers as she settled into life over state lines and moving right into the Boston area. Certain that no one would ever find her, she did what she could to look into all of her options. At one point, she nearly gave up little Tommy for adoption, but could not find it within herself to do so.
Things were hard and money was tight, but Desiree did her best with what she had. Working two part-time jobs, she was barely able to make ends meet once they finally were able to move out of the shelters. Once Tommy was of school-age, she felt that she had somewhat of a break and was glad to not have to deal with childcare as much as she did. However, it was when Tommy was six that there became an issue. His mother never came to pick him up. While Desiree was known for being somewhat late every now and then, it became more and more worrisome when no one could reach her and more than fifteen minutes had passed. Little Jason was left coloring and sitting quietly when authorities finally came to pick him up. Not knowing of any other relatives, he was placed into foster care. No one had seen or heard from his mother since she had left work that afternoon.
Being placed with a nice enough family, Tommy really didn't know how to handle much of anything. It was a nice home with rules he had never heard of before. Having been in that home for two years, he became used to his foster parents ways, to the point that when they began to gradually take in more foster kids. Many of these kids would come and go, either back to their own families or to other ones. It wasn't until the family took on another child, that he finally began to give them any trouble. Taking it in stride, his foster parents seemed to just believe that he was finally coming out of his shell, though they hoped it was just one of those passing phases. After the young girl had ended up leaving their home, he had seemed to calm down again some, though he was still being deemed a troublemaker for not taking to their belief system and making a point of it any chance that he could.
Acting out in any way that he could, it was always deemed in more innocent ways. This ended when this barely passing student ended up getting into a fight at school over some missing money. He wasn't the type to lie, nor had a reason to steal money. The other boy had heard that Tommy was a foster child and used it to his advantage, egging him on. After this point, the teenager derailed more and more leaving his current family to try and force punishments. It became a constant cycle of rebellion for him.
Barely graduating high school, everyone seemed proud of that fact, at least until things turned around the night of the ceremony. During the festiivities, Tommy had run off with some friends pulling the usual underage drinking and smoking. Ending up in the wrong place at the wrong time, he bared witness to the fleeing of what looked like a burglary gone wrong. Uncertain of what happened, he heard movement still inside. Futile attempts at helping left him there when the police arrived. In fear of what would be thought of him, covered in blood, he ran. That alone left him with a police chase and the only viable suspect, as far as the police were concerned. Regardless of his fight, he lost the case and was incarcerated for robbery and manslaughter.
During his two years spent in prison, before a light came in to exhonoerate him of all previous charges, Tommy made his way through prison life through the point of a gang. Given what he knew and could see, it was the only way to save himself from whatever fate was looking to make of him. Feeling more like king of the yard, given his size and stature, it was easier than he expected. But he didn't turn back or ever want to go back, the moment that another man was caught and found to have pulled off not only the case that Tommy had been sentenced for, but a string of them.
Attempting to make something out of his life, everything was different. It had only been two years, but Tommy didn't know how to handle anything in the outside world. It was like deja vu for a life that he hadn't been able to live, so stuck on what he had learned and used during his time put away. A lot of his time was spent alone, working out, or simply locked in his own room. Any sort of relationships turned out badly as he didn't know how to handle them. With the world fading away, he tried to find something to give himself peace and reason to get out and feel more himself. This led to him learning how to be a personal trainer. Between his back and forth with work and home, Tommy was pulled more and more out of his shell. By the age of 30, he felt stuck again, in life and some rut, leading him to get a degree in physical fitness courses and gaining certification.
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