“You might look at me and say, Hey, there's a happy kid; a little hyper, a little…”

“I just clung closer to her and knew the boogeyman couldn't get me, not as long as Mama…”

“I was afraid of the boogeyman until I was fourteen or fifteen. The boogeyman was the devil…”

“One mother was nurturing while the other was neurotic; one father was missing -- the…”