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a tragic family link<br />

My mother, Dolores, with whom this book is dedicated<br />

too died in 2014. She meant the world to me and was<br />

always hopeful for <strong>my</strong> success. We were very close<br />

throughout <strong>my</strong> childhood because we shared a common<br />

ene<strong>my</strong>, <strong>my</strong> father’s alcoholism.<br />

Robert Thompson and <strong>my</strong> mother were married in June<br />

of 1955. He was a veteran soldier of Korea and <strong>my</strong> mother<br />

was a stylist at a local beauty shop.<br />

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