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I had gone with Perla to get her ultrasound ...
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getting my head around the ...
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had a child on ...
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obviously this was going to be a new expe...
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once I knew one was coming, I thought I wante...
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little idyllic vision of fatherhood until I realized something I’d been ignoring:
a hard enough time with grown women, forget about little ones.
daughter would probably be ...
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I breathed a sigh of relief when Perla delivered a beautiful, healthy...
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named him London not only because he was conce...
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because I’d had a friend with that name in grade school and never forgot how...
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I didn’t have any experience rais...
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I did get some training. Perla felt an overwhelming rush of the maternal instinc...
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she brought home a Pomeranian puppy from ...
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The dog immediately became my responsibility, especially once Perla was ordered to ...
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forced to raise this dog and that was my preparatio...
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only experience I’d had raising anything, because one thing is for sure—having cats and s...
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I must have done something right because our dog was very well behaved by th...
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Having a child forced me to be present; it insisted that I...
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I wasn’t with Velvet Revolver, I was home with my wife...
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was the dad, assembling the nursery, shopping for toys, putting together th...
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And then Perla got pregn...
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found out that it was another boy, and I breathed anoth...
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Our new baby was a breech as well, though the complications didn’t develop until later on in her term. It...
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I was on tour when my second son w...
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I managed to fly home regularly to visit Perla ...
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day that my second son was to be delivered I had a show...
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one. They had to hold up Perla’s C-section until I got there.
I went right to the hospital and arrived just before he was born.
spent that night and the next morning with Perla and my perfect new littl...
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Such is the life my two sons have be...
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told us we should name our first son.
“Name him Cash.”
“All right. But if you get a second chance,” he said, “do the right thing.”
The family Hudson: Slash, London, Perla, and Cash on a Disney cruise in 2006 where they were undoubtedly the local outcasts.
And so our second son is named Cash.
AFTER TWO YEARS AT THE FEVER PITCH that is nonstop touring,
as I was with the condition, it hadn’t gotten any easier to bear—if anything, it had become a...
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When all you care about is the grind of going from gig to gig, when the next show is the only thing you’re looking forward to for an extended period of time, when room service and your hotel room are yo...
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Home, no matter who you are, is nothing like that. When you are home you have to get off of your...
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home you become as normal as you’ll ever be because you have to rely ...
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past, I’d relied on booze and drugs to offset that transition and make it a bit easier...
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have kids, if you intend to be a dependable...
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option goes out the window: when you come off the road and you’re a parent, you get h...
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go from a situation where you’re taken care of to one where yo...
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It wasn’t easy on either Perla or me wh...
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had started drinking wine—a lot of ...
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and she’d been watching me slip into my old w...
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So we had some issues to deal with.
extra level of stress that two years on the road did nothing but escalate.
