Discussion (4)¬

1. Marie says:

   April 16, 2009 at 6:46 pm

   OMG Kathy, I’m so sorry for your childhood experiences. I hope your step(?) (I won’t even call him dad) is dead and it wasn’t easy for him to go. I also hope you’ve found happiness as an adult. Your graphics are so profound. The reader is swept into your childhood pain. The ophanage-with it’s disfunction-was better than the degredation of your home life. Your a brave women and your graphic novel is proof that people survive despite the stupidity & cruelty of their parents and people who pose as authority figures. Thanks Kathy for moving forward and not repeating your past.
2. Kathy says:

   April 16, 2009 at 7:33 pm

   Marie,
   Thank you for the comment. I have no idea what happened to that guy- Henry Thomas (his real name, I hope my book gets really famous and everyone throws tomatoes at him- if he’s still alive.)
   My mother divorced him right after that and he slinked into the mud somewhere in Kentucky, his home state. But don’t worry, it all has a happy ending.
   I have a wonderful life now. Four fantastic kids, three super granbabies and best of all
   a very loving and handsome husband. We’ve been together since I was fifteen and we are still very much in love!
   And believe it or not today is my mother’s birthday and my grandson and I are taking her presents for her 73rd birthday.
   She’s a blind, lonely, old woman now in a nursing home- complaining that my brothers and I don’t visit her often enough!
   I guess it’s karma!
   hugs, Kathy
3. Patrickroman says:

   April 17, 2009 at 12:59 am

   Tell Mom that I hope to visit her one day. I am unemployed so it is hard for me to afford the trip.
4. Kathy says:

   April 17, 2009 at 3:08 pm

   Patrick,
   I will tell her the next time I see her.