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...think you had an odd childhood? Augusten Burroughs, the author of "Running with Scissors: A Memoir" (St. Martin's; July) was adopted by his mother's therapist at the age of 13. Afterwards, says his publisher, "his childhood took a turn for the bizarre with electroshock machine fun and games; month-long family/patient sleep-overs on the front lawn; a physician-assisted fake suicide attempt to get excused from school forever; a pedophile living in the barn; Lithium, Valium, and Halcyon eaten like candy, and much more." The therapist was later arrested for fraud. Former TIME writer Kurt Andersen blurbs...