Viewed from a different angle, my uncle’s words offered up the rest of my life as an unexpected gift, an opportunity for the most radical improvisation. I could be whatever I wanted to be, as long as I didn’t end up another corpse in the casket with a hole in his head. Anything went. Anything was permissible, as long as I lived.

Viewed from a different angle, my uncle’s words offered up the rest of my life as an unexpected gift, an opportunity for the most radical improvisation. I could be whatever I wanted to be, as long as I didn’t end up another corpse in the casket with a hole in his head. Anything went. Anything was permissible, as long as I lived.

– Philip Connors –

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