Man I have a lot of drug stories from
1972 first use of illegal drug. 15 years old.
to
1991 last use of illegal drug. 34 years old.
Fuck I think I could write 500 pages of stories.
Add in the gambling from 1961 to 1992. 1000 pages of stories. Yeah I started young with gambling.
You started gambling when you were 4? That's impressive

Hahaha
One way to kick a bad habit early is to start early.

Okay my 4 year old gambling story. I was the youngest kid in kindergarten. In September 1961 I was 4 years and 8 months old.
We went to a school in Brooklyn. So the game I was taught was flipping baseball cards. There where multiple versions one was matching colors of hats on the players. I am colorblind so I was playing a game that I absolutely could not win. I would lose all my cards every single time. When I asked to play other versions of flipping base ball cards. Ie a finger flick with multiple rotations on the way to the ground landing heads or tails. No one would play that and not knowing a freaking thing about compulsive gambling I had to play to get even. It took me a long time to learn to not play that game of matching for colors.

. Plenty more stories after that one.