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My father left school after the sixth grade and spent most of his life looking for work. This meant that we moved a lot — the coast, the valley, the desert — living in the country sometimes, sometimes in small towns and sometimes in cities. In my first six years of public school, I attended six different schools. I have no friends from childhood. Moving so often also meant that I rarely saw any of my aunts and uncles or their children — my cousins. I can’t even name all my cousins. My sense of not belonging anywhere was intensified by my father’s extreme mood swings and physical violence. No one wanted to visit our house. I left home the day after

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