One night we’re sitting and we’re talking, and she’s laughing. She has just confessed to me that the hardest thing she ever had to do as a mother was to give me ipecac to induce vomiting, because when I was little, I accidentally ate a bunch of her asthma medicine. They were these little red-coated pills, and she could see the red in my mouth. And I have just confessed to her that actually I’d gotten into the cupboard and eaten Red Hots. It was the only candy in our house, ever, and we used it once a year to put two eyeballs on a gingerbread man that we made.
