When the Criminal is Your Mother or Books Save Lives!

There's a piece of me that wanted someone official, someone in power to catch my mother's crimes. I guess in the end I was the one! I ran away and read books. I even read books before I ran away. At age 11 I saved up my 50 cent allowance and sent away for a pink paperback book: The Boys and Girls Book About Divorce. There was no Dr. Phil but this worked just as well.