Sep 13, 2005 14:49
"As college classmates became close friends, I heard sagas of life at home that were Gothic horror stories. Behind the hedges and drive ways of upper-middle class suburbia were tragedies of madness, suicide, and-most prevelant of all-chronic and severe alcoholism....
The real revelation for me was the role played by children in....keeping up appearances. Many of my new friends had been pressed in to service early as happy smiling fronts, emissaries of family normalcy, cheerful proof that "nothing was really wrong" at the Jonses."
-Benita Eisler
RJRII
Ps. EASTERN THIS WEEKEND!