While my kindergarten crush disappoints me, another classmate gifts me with the only time in my life I was allowed to be angry at mom.

Deeply troubled by adult conflict, my own unmet needs are somewhere intertwined in my parent's pain.

Was she really stalked by high tech harassers after calling in a police report? I found no adults to corroborate this evidence until 30 years later: https://thestate.com/news/special-reports/state-125/article52824590.html

Grandma's death, Grandpa One, Grandpa Two, and Dad all fuel Mom War on Sexism.

If mom sounded the terrifying childhood alarm, dad cast serious doubt on her sanity and receded into the background of middle level managment.

A 38 year old white man in Philadelphia sets the stage to air secrets of a mild-mannered and controlled businessman father, his stormy artist wife, and how they attack or downplay each other as a sensitive empath child grows in the spaces between the conflict.