“One mother was nurturing while the other was neurotic; one father was missing -- the eternal mystery -- while the other, who wasn't my father but the one I called Daddy, was around. He was a good man who liked his liquor.”
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“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…”
“All this insanity has made me wonder whether craziness was in my blood.”