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He was a storyteller.

He described his early days as if he'd been born in the Seventh Circle of Hell. People absorbed the stories and spewed them out in different ways. Some said he'd been a homeless child, starving in the street. Others said he was an industrious little kid who went door to door selling bags of garlic to housewives. You get the sense that he had some unimaginably hard times but manufactured a frightening autobiography to amuse people. He was selling uplift and desperation.

We know his father left the family. Edwin mentioned it in practically every interview. The father, Antonio Domingo, eventually got sick of being the villain in his son's story.

“Ask my other children if I have been a bad father,” he said. “I left the house because of problems with his mother, but I never abandoned them, I was always aware and I helped them financially. Edwin told me one day: ‘Dad, I say all that because it gives me more fame, so they see me as the child who suffered a lot.’”

Domingo asked Valero to stop telling those stories. Valero never stopped. Valero controlled the narrative. He was hawking poor pitiful me.