1967 Ethel Magee: Part 4
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…

