monster um but you're right it's one of those things where some people have a hard childhood and go on to do amazing things some people have a hard childhood and go on to do the most heinous of things so he go on to leave school at the age of NUMBER_TOKEN and became a painter and decorator and game extremely skilled at um he would also from this he would learn the layout of the city learn about um kind of abandoned buildings and things like that and he was very aware of what areas were well off what well to do more about impoverished areas which would go on to exploit those things later on so it's kind of the turn of the century approaching the great depression so lots of run-down areas i imagine so around NUMBER_TOKEN the fish family moved to new york city where albert claimed at this time he became a male sex worker and he also went on to say that around this age was the time we started raping young boys at the same time all the while he was obviously trying to take odd contracting jobs and painting jobs around the city he would also as tom mentioned frequently begin to write obscene letters to women whose names he had acquired basically through classified ads almost lined up with nanny dos not quite a few years apart but that would have been an interesting couple you would um nanny fish nanny fish is a good name or albert dos oh she kept a double barrel dosh fit nanny dos fish and he does fish sounds like a restaurant what does nanny make NUMBER_TOKEN dollars for you don't eat it though don't eat it or a bowl of coffee on the side the next decade really fish would basically make ends meet with painting jobs but also work you know sex work on the side so in NUMBER_TOKEN fish's mother arranged for albert to get married to anna mary hoffman who was nine years his junior so slightly smaller age gap than uh is his parents um i feel like this might have been something where his mum probably noticed a few warning signs with albert and thought you know what we'll do we'll get you a nice a nice wife let's get you settled down and it couldn't have had a more opposite effect uh they would have six children together uh albert junior aj anna gertrude eugene john and henry good sir fish great set of fish i don't like thinking nemo would be there imagine a family picnic they'd have a whale of a time um fish out of water in new york so with the long list of things that fish was doing at the time raping young boys um in like sticking sharp things within himself eating feces drinking piss apparently he was never violent to his own he didn't abuse his own children he wasn't violent to his wife he very much at home was the family guy so to speak and then away from that he would um all his vices would come out to play as we mentioned it's not totally clear where this this fascination was born but there was one uh recollection fish would later make in one of his diaries uh where he states that there was an incident in which a male lover took him to a wax works museum where fish was fascinated by a bisection of a penis and
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