Harlan County

When I was four years old my parents divorced. My sister (who was two years old) and I were far too young to really understand what was going on. Starting whenever my mother moved out, my sister and I were constantly switching homes between mother and father. I was equally close with both of my parents and I had a great relationship with them both. Although I had a great relationship with my mother, she had poor judgment when it came to boyfriends. With that being said, I spent most of my…

"Well, use your head, son," he said, smiling. Which really meant, "That's all I'm going to tell you," or "I don't know the answer, so don't embarrass me." A Partnership Is Formed The next morning, I told my best friend, Mike, what my dad had said. As best I could tell, Mike and I were the only poor kids in this school. Mike was like me in that he was in this school by a twist of fate. Someone had drawn a jog in the line for the school district, and we wound up in school with the rich kids. We…