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The Importance of Being Outspoken
I felt like my society betrayed me, that it didn't interfere with the abuse. I would go talk to guidance counselors, tell them I was being abused. My sister almost died. She became bulimic. Her stomach ate her intestines. And so we'd coped with it in different ways. But nobody really noticed. At 15 years old, I ran away and I took to the streets. He emulated his father, joined the Grateful Dead for a number of years. His first stint in jail set him on a course to search for religion.