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...order to care for her. When she died in February, he went on autopilot, arranging her funeral and cleaning out her St. Louis, Mo., apartment. "I still feel like I haven't addressed it," says Roy, 47, of her death. It took him six months to clear out the bedroom he'd made for her, and he has yet to go through the belongings that fill his third floor. "I keep saying that I will," he says, "but those are her things; I don't feel like I have the right." Toward the end, when his mother needed to gain...
Homer Bennett's birth family was far from perfect. His mom and dad paid the bills by peddling heroin and cocaine from the living room couch of their three-bedroom home on Chicago's South Side. The parents had a sense of decorum. In front of Homer and his brother Frankie, they would refer to the two drugs as "boy" and "girl." Homer and Frankie never learned which was which, though they knew it was dope. Once, when the police came by, the brothers hid underneath a bed, emerging to beg the cops not to take their...
...Exeter Academy in 1931, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. plays a board game called Camelot with a roommate whose mother is best friends from convent school with Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. In the 1970s, Schlesinger lives in a house on Manhattan's East 64th Street. He looks out his bedroom window one day and sees his neighbor Richard M. Nixon "prowling restlessly around his garden." In a little while a party begins at the Schlesinger house. A guest--invited by a friend of his wife's--comes to the door, a man whom Schlesinger has never met: Alger Hiss. They have a polite...
Neither of us had any problem getting our pictures to appear. Antje's son Harrison was so impressed that he would rush into her bedroom at 6 a.m. each day just to stare at his digital likeness onscreen, while I treated myself to mid-workday forays in Central Park to snap the golden fall leaves...
...western side of the divide because that was "closer to Los Angeles." In L.A., one could live all by oneself in a "security building" like Sabrina or in a beach house like Jill. Granted, as a grownup the closest I ever got was a one-bedroom across from Lake Michigan. But still I got the career-girl life I dreamed of. Sometimes I even get paid to watch...