I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.
From Allegra Huston
I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.
The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was lucky.
Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.
When I moved to London at age 16, tired of the shuffle around other people's houses and ready to live on my own, I met my English brother and sister, who instantly claimed me as family.
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