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Beautiful scars : steeltown secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the road home

Wilson, Tom (Thomas Cunningham), 1959- author

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Even as a kid my existence as the son of Bunny and George Wilson seemed far-fetched to me. When I went over it in my head, none of it added up. The other kids on East 36th Street in Hamilton used to tell me stories of their mothers being pregnant and their newborn siblings coming home from the hospital. Nobody ever talked about Bunny's and my return from the hospital. In my mind my birth was like the nativity, only with gnarly dogs and dirty snow and a chipped picket fence and old blind people with short tempers and dim lights, ashtrays full of Export Plain cigarette butts and bottles of rum. Once, when I was about four, I asked Bunny, \"How come I don't look anything like you and George? How come you are old and the other moms are young?\" \"There are secrets I know about you that I'll take to my grave,\" she responded. And that pretty well finished that. Bunny built up a wall to protect her secrets, and as a result I built a wall to protect myself.

• Publisher: Doubleday Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited
• Subject: Wilson, Tom 1959- / Wilson, Tom, 1959- / Wilson, Tom, 1959- Famille / Birthparents Ontario Hamilton Biography. / Adopted children Ontario Hamilton Biography. / Mohawk Indians Ontario Hamilton Biography. / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Personal Memoirs. / MUSIC.
• ISBN: 0385685653, 9780385685658

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HV874.82.W55 A3 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE