Warning: There are scenes of child abuse in this memoir.
Minneapolis
1961 - 1962
“This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.”
--Rainer Maria Rilke, The Man Watching
Chapter 1
Falling snowflakes stuck to my tiny red down coat. A little boy who liked to study the world, I reached my hand to touch the melt-stain o…
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