Don’t You Ever

Contents

Part I: Two Funerals

1: Losing the Brother I Hardly Knew

2: Losing the Mother I Thought I Knew

Part II: The Parents Who Raised Me

3: My Mother: Gentle Hands and Foul Moods

4: My Father: Joy, Wonder, and Self-Hate

Part III: Our World

5: The Kingdom of the Rich

6: The People in the Big House

Part IV: The Lie

7: Original Shame

9: Polly and Roy

10: Freaky Little Bastard

11: Truth at the Kitchen Stove

Part V: Finding and Losing Ronnie

12: I Walk into His Barbershop

13: We Get Acquainted

14: What Was Wrong

15: Trying to Help

16: Losses, Gains, Losses

Part VI: Learning Still

17: Unearthing Ronnie

18: Our Family Shrivels

Part VII: A Finer Sifting

19: I Draw Closer

20: Walking with Them

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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