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I was an abused kid.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

My father was very abusive, and it was hard for my mother at first to leave because we had depended on him for so long. Sometimes you kind of get adjusted to getting that beating.

I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.