when the chairman said to me, ‘Dominick, do you have anything you’d like to say?’ I started talking and couldn’t stop. I suppose in my whole life I never told so much about myself to anyone as I did to that group, two of them were Indians from a reservation. I suppose I figured, what the fuck difference does it make. Griffin, I had them spellbound. I told them all my poor stories that I was too ashamed to tell anyone else, and they were in hysterics, tears rolling down their cheeks. Then I talked about your mother, and the guilt I feel about her. I told them I’m writing a book I hated and I
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