No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.
“I like to go wakeboarding. It's my new favorite sport. It's like skiing but on a snowboard that has little shoes on it.”
“It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.”