“Then, while he was there, my mother had a nervous breakdown and had to be hospitalized. They told us she was going away for a long time. I had two little sisters and two little brothers. That night, when my parents had gone, I remember walking out into the yard and looking at the sky, wondering what I was going to do from there. I remember this like it was yesterday. . . . I thought almost out loud . . . I might have even said it out loud. ‘There’s no one to depend on anymore. It’s all going to be up to me,’” he said solemnly.
