First Self Portrait — First Quarter/Nineteen Years pg41

Colorful companion to my memoir The Incompetent Psychic

First Self Portrait 1959

There are clear and fuzzy memories of being stuck in traction in the children’s ward for six weeks. Six-year old Beverly lived in the next bed. She was native Canadian, but it was hard to tell she was even a girl because of the burn scars all over her. Her family was killed in…