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Presenting Zibby Oneal. "I feel a responsibility to make children understand that adolescence is a self-absorbed world . . . but it's not a place you can stay forever," Oneal told Smith. "The movement away and out into the world, into concern for other people, has to happen; you aren't an adult until you make that move. Sure, explore your feelings, because if you're hung up on your problems you're never going to be able to move on. So work that out, but then get out into the world."
Born in 1934 in Nebraska, Oneal grew up on what she described to Bloom and Mercier as "an ordinary residential street in Omaha, . . . which made the fact that out father raised goats in the back yard all the odder." Oneal's father was a medical researcher at the time and the goats were used for biological research. "Our mother bore the presence of the goats stoically, just as she bore our father's other projects," Oneal continued. "When he was inventing his own salad dressing and seeking to patent it, she bore the chaos in the kitchen. When he moved on to painting portraits, she posed for him." Other colorful members of the family included a grandfather who refused to explain just how he had lost the tip of his index finger (other than that it had been bitten off) and a sister who was so terrified of her convent school that she vomited every morning before leaving home.
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