My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L. A. Examiner. ' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.
People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me. '