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Don Nguyen: "I pirated my way on".(HEADS_NGUYEN)(Interview)
DON'S A MIX between Billy the Kid, Captain Jack Sparrow, and Bruce Leroy all rolled into one. The guy was born into this world fighting, smoking, drinking, and cussing. Don't let his stretchy girl pants fool you. This dude is as gangster as it gets. He's the son of a bookie raised in a pool hall just west of the Mississippi, in a small place only known for being the last place anybody would ever want to go. Oklahoma is such a bad place that they didn't give it to the Native Americans, they forced them into it. A dust bowl full of Baptist and dirt, this is where Don Nguyen was raised. If it was 70 years ago, he'd have an old west gun-slinging kind of nickname. "The Nuge" would mean some whole other shit.
The only difference between Billy the Kid and Nuge is that Don wouldn't have slipped up, got caught and shot. He's capable of biting your ear off like Tyson if you piss him off, and at the same…
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