1967 Ethel Magee: Part 4

Gayle Leslie
Nov 2 · 3 min read

“Just because your mother’s crazy doesn’t mean she’s not right.”

~ My therapist, 2011

Years later, shortly before I left to study acting in Manhattan, when Mother was spastic at the reality of my no longer being there to buffer her, to be her go-between with my father — who by then blatantly ignored every word she said — she regaled me with the list of things he’d done to provoke “the crazy” in…

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Gayle Leslie

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Author of “Dwelling in the Vast Divine.1 & .2" Political consultant, policy wonk. https://www.amazon.com/Dwelling-Vast-Divine-1-Serialized-Memoir/dp/1495477746

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