
It was too much responsibility for her and she quit. He tried hiring a nanny and renting a house, but that didn’t work.


He was a traveling salesman and didn’t have a permanent residence. We were put in foster homes while my father tried to figure out what to do next. My brother Jim was 16, my sister Beverly was 10 and my brother Bill was 9. There were 4 of us children and our father got custody after our mother’s stroke because she could no longer care for us. She was taken to the hospital and I didn’t see her again for quite some time (months). She had her back to the refrigerator and I thought she had hit her head on the refrigerator and got knocked out. I wasn’t quite 5 yet but my mother had a stroke while we were sitting at the breakfast table. Can you tell us a little about your early days? Do you remember your mother having a stroke when you were 5? How did that affect you personally? What was it like at boarding schools after that?
