Board Thread:Character submissions/@comment-5297614-20150409090003/@comment-3112252-20150410180614

Name: Earl Smith (45)

Occupation: Marriage Therapist

Personal Claim to Fame: Graduating Collage

Inspiration In life: My son who has cancer but seeing him give back to the army

Hobbies: Dance, Drinking and Biking

Pet Peeves: People with stories that are depressing

3 words to describe you: Angry, Friendly and Smart

SURVIVOR contestant you are most like: RUSSELL mix with different people

Reason for being on SURVIVOR(idea) I want to prove that people with aids could win

Why Do You Think You Will Survive SURVIVOR(idea) I’ve battled Aids for 30 years, if I can do that I can definitely win the game!

Why Do You think You Will Be the Sole SURVIVOR: Everyone will love me, but i am angry person on the inside so I might be voted out if I keep my head away from the anger personality that I have.

(50-word minimum): this help: Earl was born in North Carolina, His parents where pastors at local church going to church every sunday. At the age of 8, his parents were both caught cheating on each other however at work there were problems. At 12 years, his parents move Portland, Oregon where Earl was pick on for being the only black person at school. A year later at the age of 13, Earl and his parents moved back North Carolina. One night in cold weather at 14, Earl’s Fathers’ best friend James busted through Earl’s room and raped him. When Earl turned 15, he went to the doctor’s office to get tested for AIDS, after the testing the doctor told Earl the results that he was positive for AIDS. As Earl got older he started to drink heavily and was getting in the habit of drugs. By the time he got to be 22 years old, he decided to go to college and become a marriage therapist because he loved solving problems and he became clean of alcohol and drugs. He fell in love with a woman named Tanisha, and eventually became his future wife. Although he is clean from he still has to take medication for his health issues. Earl currently lives in North Carolina with his wife Tanisha and has a son who has lupus disorder, and he’s trying to find a way to get a cure for his son that he loves very much, that is a reason he is on SURVIVOR.