1967 Ethel Magee: Part 3

Gayle Leslie
7 min readOct 31, 2019

“Just because your mother’s crazy doesn’t mean she’s not right.”

~ My therapist, 2011

At some point in 1968, my father came home a little early one evening. I know he was early because it was still full daylight outside. That was while he was running his own used car lot out on IH-45; I remember that he rarely came home before darkness fell in those days. I suspect it was summer because I was…

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