My dad, he didn't even have the eyes to see me after all of his tall, blue-eyed sons were dead. He started bellowing from the hilltop to hilltop like a madman, saying that God had forsaken him, and he had nothing more to live for, because all his sons were gone! Tears streamed down my dad's face. I was about nine or ten, the same ag
Burro Genius: A Memoir (2004)