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...Well, my mom went to college with Skip Gates...no, wait, that was my dad. My mom's roommate dropped out freshman year to sing with Carole King. Her daughter went to high school with me. As did the senator's daughter. Which senator? All of them...
...fight. I couldn't be nice. I couldn't stop my overwhelming selfishness--everything was affecting me. How I felt. How I reacted. It was a feeling of dread--there was no way out of my self-obsession. What would I do if he died? Where would my mom and I go? I could not escape the constant image of my mother weeping. And her voice: "I hope he lives to see you graduate...
...across from me, my father was just trying to stay alive. I cried and complained and told him this boy, my boyfriend, was mad at me and I couldn't do chem and wasn't having fun and couldn't get good grades and couldn't get along with Mom--everything, except how much I wanted him to stay alive. What is wrong with me, I kept thinking, that I can't tell my father how scared I am that he'll disappear? How his strong rower's body will shrivel up and his mind will lose all the things...
...fight. I couldn't be nice. I couldn't stop my overwhelming selfishness--everything was affecting me. How I felt. How I reacted. It was a feeling of dread--there was no way out of my self-obsession. What would I do if he died? Where would my mom and I go? I could not escape the constant image of my mother weeping. And her voice: "I hope he lives to see you graduate...
...influenced by intense alienation and isolation, combined with easy access to guns and a culture that teaches kids, in everything from movies to foreign policy, that violence is a valid means of resolving problems." The isolation of the latchkey kid is even more intense in the suburbs. "When Mom and Dad aren't home much and the extended family of the past is gone, kids are left to the mercies of a peer culture shaped by popular culture," says TIME senior writer Richard Lacayo. "Whiplashed from 'South Park' and 'Jerry Springer' to playing Mortal Kombat on Nintendo desensitizes ordinary kids...