This book has been in a moving box since 2008. It’s filled with the letters of encouragement and humor to my brother who’s in Prison. We take a walk down memory lane. Editing 600-pages to 300, and still keep the story’s heart intact is challenging.
Chapter 1: What’s Normal?
Sometimes you get small hints, other times you get billboards on the highway.
This was a billboard on the highway moment. It wasn’t until now, in my mid-twenties, that we began to realize (and admit) there might be a disorder in the family. My sister Darling had mentioned something about struggling with mental something or other. I had just assumed that her husband was making that up in an attempt to gain control of her and ha. . .
