Truth is Where You Find It.
I found mine in the book Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. No there was not an incident with a dolphin in my youth. But there was a circus. A couple actually and both are rather dark memories. A clown in one which I get close to in Stephen King books like IT, but always shy away from the total truth of. But the one Prince of Tides uncovered was the one in Roswell where a trapeze artist fell to her death. No wait. Everyone tells me I remember that wrong. But all the principals are now dead so I get to have it my way. Mom was not even there. She was home with Gary who has no way of knowing the truth. I was with Dad. Who enlisted me as is conspirator and told me to not tell Mom. The Dolphin, the Tiger, and the Circus in Pat Conroy's fiction are all wrapped up in an elaborate tangle of lies and cover up. The Circus, the rape, and my brother the conspiracy of lies that exploded as a result of reading Prince of Tides. I had been so indoctrinated in the party line (translate that as family...