Mr. Johnnie's brother was a crackhead.

That shows no progression soever, until you consider: Johnnie was 13 in 1958, and his brother was nine years younger. Which means by the sixties, Johnnie's brother was a Mescaline user turned heroin addict pothead. Somehow this pathology entered Mr. Johnnie's life and that of his divorcee. The women of the family kept telling Johnnie to help the boy. 100's and 20's accrued to 23,000 in debt, when Johnnie's daughter in law found a crack pipe in the basement of their Berkeley lake home. Johnnie's brother already ruined the house in Brookhaven, which had to be flattened. Mr. Johnnie received $110,000 for the land. Eventually the brother was evicted for heading a small drug ring, and wound homeless near the Chattahoochee river. It was not ruled a suicide, but by the time they retrieved his cadaver, the body had liquefied. Johnnie showed more remorse for the $23,000 than his fraternal loss. He would have been 68.