-- My father being mean, mentally and physically, to my mother-- My mother taking dives into “nerves” and staying in bed in a darkened room-- Hiding under my desk at school so a bomb wouldn’t kill me-- Marching Nazis in the newsreels-- A man pinching me on my nipple, his face in a grotesque leer-- Chiggers all over my balls and pecker and my having to go to school and help my father on his bread route without scratching while itching like hell-- A male cousin from the Alabama side of the family who drowned a kitten and who would attack me physically-- Working after school all the time from seventh grade on-- Stepping barefoot on a stinging bee-- And a bunch of other stuff
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