It's going to be very structured and family oriented.

We're also going to teach them how to dress for work so that eventually they can upgrade the status of their jobs. We're trying to make (this program) completely well-rounded.

I've always wanted to do this.

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.