When You're Not Playing With Other Kids

Rachel and Peter knew without being told how important it was to lie, especially to anyone in authority. Rachel remembers shoplifting tied because Peter told her someone at school had said he smelled poor. She says she was more adept than Peter at blending in. The disguise worked while she was at school but home was always a wild card. We always had shame about having friends over because like, you know, we didn't have cold furniture. One time we had lawn furniture as our furniture. He once had a kiddie pool in his room full of crawdads and like not an aquarium but like $3 Toys R Us kiddie Pool you could get in that summer.