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“I learned early that most adults were unpredictable, so I couldn’t count on them and had to be constantly vigilant. I never wanted a plain life, but a touch of normality was nice now and again.”

“(I also knew there was another someone out there, a shadowy figure I sensed was a man that nobody talked about, a missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle.) Most importantly, the only man I ever called daddy loved me and treat me as his own. That was good enough for me.”

“not long after he and mom were wet, he told her to fetch me from my babysitters and bring me to live with them, which is how, at the age of 4 1/2, I found myself with a dad for the first time. In the back of my head, I knew he wasn’t my real father, but I never gave it any thought.”

“With psychic abilities that also ran in my family, she sometimes had premonitions in her dreams…”