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I was 3 years old...
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I had a 4-year-old brother...
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and he drowned in 1963...
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right after President Kennedy
was assassinated, I believe.
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Sometime right after that,
during the summer.
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We was living in Beaumont
on Harrison Street...
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and my dad was working on his truck
out in the yard...
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and mom was in the house
doing her housework or fixing dinner.
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Me and my brother, we had
one of these little blow-up pools...
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and we were playing in that.
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My dad was supposed to be watching
or keeping an eye on us or something.
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My brother wandered off down the street...
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and these people had a
swimming pool in their backyard...
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and they were elderly people.
They never used the pool.
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I guess it had a bunch of leaves
and stuff in it.
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And he, evidently, fell in there and drowned.
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I used to sit up in my room at night
and talk to him and he wasn't there.
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So that might have been some kind of
a traumatic experience for me.
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I guess my dad...
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I don't know, maybe he couldn't
get rid of the responsibility...
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or the guilt or something.
I don't know what it was.
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I was there and I guess maybe
I reminded him of that...
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all the time, growing up.
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It was hard for me
to get any acceptance from him.
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When my younger brother was born...
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it was kind of like he was Daddy's
favorite or something, I don't know.
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Everybody's life is going to take
some kind of path...
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regardless of what happens.
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I think maybe that a lot of the things
I did when I was younger...
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was an attempt to get back at him
or something...