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“Perfect is boring.” Well, 1982 certainly wasn't boring for the Welch family. Somehow, between their handsome father’s mysterious death, their glamorous soap opera star mother’s cancer diagnosis, and a phalanx of lawyers intent on bankruptcy proceedings, the four Welch siblings managed to handle each new heartbreaking misfortune together. But all that changed with the death of their mother. While nineteen year-old Amanda was legally on her own, the three younger siblings—Liz, 16; Dan, 14 and Diana, 8—were each dispersed to a different set of family friends.
Told in the alternating voices of the four siblings, this memoir tells their poignant, harrowing story of growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up. The kids are not only all right; they're back together.
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This one is from Macey, one brave – and tough – 15 year old girl.
“I originally got this book randomly in my high school library because I had to do an oral presentation on a non-fiction book. This was before Christmas break. I had only read the first 20 pages or so up until a couple weeks ago.”
You’re not going to believe it: Lee Godart, the man behind one of the most memorable roles on the Edge of Night, wrote us the other day, out of the blue. He played Elliot Dorn to our mother’s Margo Huntington, forming the most scandalous pair in all of Monticello. Lee sent us some old photos of him and our mother… and confessed his unabashed love for her! Click through to read his entire email, and to see never-before-seen photos of him and our mom on set.
Almost every day, we get emails from people who have read our book. Some of them simply want to reach out because they were moved by our story while others write to share their stories of childhood tragedy and triumph. On a the rare occasion, we receive blasts from the past that blow our hair back. Today we got one of those: All the way from Chile, Andres himself!
Here is his email, in full, reprinted with his permission, of course.