Life at Reason's Edge: My Relentless and Undignified Fall From Grace and Subsequent Descent Towards Madness
I've decided I'm not content to sit calmly at my aging computer and watch world events unfold around me any more. That has always been what I do...observe, watch, learn - remain aloof...separated from the world surrounding me.
Perhaps that is what differentiates me. I grew up in a place akin to Keillor's Lake Wobegon. Indeed, all the women were strong, all the men were good looking, and all the children were above average (except, perhaps, me). See, early childhood was rife with differentiators...I was adopted, Jewish, an only child with divorced parents, living with my mother and her lower-than-average State social worker income in an affluent area. Everyone had two-point-two cars in the driveway, two-point-zero children in the den, a cat, a dog...seeming perfection to someone such as myself, who stood enviously apart.
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