My grandmother, Cleo, was a survivor of the Great Depression. She and my grandfather were both very poor. By the time she died, they’d accumulated enough money to own a couple pieces of property, which my grandma had dutifully filled to the rafters with junk. It was stuff she was certain she’d need when the bottom fell out from the world again. As a kid, watching my mom and her sisters deal with grandma’s mounds of crap, I didn’t really understand what I was seeing.

I recognize it now as PTSD and, if I’m totally honest, a healthier coping mechanism than my own, which heavily resembles Roland’s. The only reason I made it out the other side intact was because I’d surrounded myself with good people. There’s really no replacement and no better treatment for trauma than letting the people you love know you’re hurting.

Anyway, thanks for reading the book. Try to avoid getting PTSD, if possible.

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2022 CC BY-NC 3.0 by Robert Evans

This edition © 2022, AK Press (Chico / Edinburgh)

ISBN 9781849354622

E-ISBN 9781849354639

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