Twenty-years of drinking and drugging caused Stone to give up his family, friends, Army career and all material possessions, only to join the ranks of derelicts throughout the notorious skid rows of Boston, Dallas, San Diego, Syracuse and Virginia Beach. Each drink and every drug caused Stone to dwindle away until finally being sent to prison for murder But ... not just any murder - the murder of his own brother, Ramon, whom they playfully called Rusty. "After inhaling one hundred dollars worth of crack cocaine along with a pint of Smirnoff's Vodka, I awoke from the stupor of this...