I was 19 when it happened. My mother and sister were held hostage by a junkie with a bad haircut. <\/p>\n
That was the worst of it. But it wasn’t the first of it. <\/p>\n
It was all very Cape Fear. A family affair that lasted several years. Between Rich – That’s what I’ll call him – and ourselves. <\/p>\n
T tells me not to talk about it. Definitely don’t blog about it. “He might read it. And I don’t want to get that started, darling.”<\/p>\n
He wont read it. Other people might. And they might not like it. But it’s out there. It’s been in the public domain for years. <\/p>\n
So, like I said, it was all very Cape Fear. Except The Old Man didn’t scare. Not even when he had a gun leveled at his head. He never gave an inch in his whole, hard life. Not even to the people he cared for. When the sometimes-vagrant pointed the pistol at him, he wrestled it away and whipped him with it. <\/p>\n
We all watched through the living room window. I still remember the look on my mother’s face. A little shock. A whole lot of disbelief. But The Old Man could care less. When he got over being mad, he was over it. <\/p>\n
Rich wasn’t. He came back. More than once. <\/p>\n
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