Jose Alfaro grew up in a small, conservative town in Texas. “I wasn’t as masculine as the other boys in school. And I really, really struggled with that,” he told Inside Edition Digital. After he was forced to leave home as a teen because of his sexuality, Jose got into the car of an older man he’d met on MySpace. “I think that at a time where you’re so isolated and you feel so alone, the one thing that you want is to form a connection with somebody who understands you,”

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