"My Mom carried a .45 for a while me on one hip the pistol on the other I lived in a community of women pilots' wives quonset huts it rained all the time the wives were edgy without their men Japanese swarmed through the jungle stole wet laundry off the lines the women fired at the least provocation sometimes at each other's shadows...."
1 After his father left the army, the family stayed with an aunt in California, until they found their own house in South Pasadena. "...One of these white, middle-class, insulated communities--not all that rich, but very proud of the municipal swimming plunge and the ice-skating rink, and all that small-town-American-type stuff.
"My dad was still trying to get his degree, after the interruptions of the army, and he had to work for his Bachelors by going to night school. But my mother already had this qualification for teaching kids, so they were working it out with jobs. He was very strict, my father, very aware of the need for discipline, so-called, very into studying.... I couldn't stand it--the whole thing of writing in notebooks, it was really like being jailed."2
1954.
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