My Mother, A Beautiful Soul, A Schizophrenic

My mother had a beautiful soul and she was schizophrenic.

In labeling her, I have done her an injustice. I notice now Read More...
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Kathy Discusses Her Dad

My father, Don, told me he knew by age 10 he wanted to be a scientist. Specifically, he wanted to become chemist. He did experiment with backyard explosives but it was his never-satisfied Read More...
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Kathy Discusses EB

On Pop's limp. It was suggested in 1992 in a research paper on a genogram that Pop Esplin must have had (Epidermolysis Bullosa) - EB but only the'skin fragiliy' Read More...
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Partial Transcription of a 1984 Taped Conversation about Don

Kent: A few things about Don, some of them we maybe talked about before and maybe we didn’t, but maybe it will make us think of something else. But one time we were driving Read More...
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Annie Discusses Don

Don the next, he was four years younger than Kent.
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He was smaller, yes. I thought, “Well, Don can use Kent’s clothes when Kent would outgrow them, but most of the time he wore them out. By the time Don would get big enough to wear them, why they just didn’t look good on him or something. Read More...
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