My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.
“My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.”
“It's a very insular political community up there. I think the court's part of that and they're protecting their own. There's no justice in Vermont today.”