Purging the Soul

I have two long-winded major parts of my life I want to talk about.  I don't have any children and I think relaying these stories are important.  I had to suffer through too much for them to be simply forgotten.  One is about my life growing up and the way things were in our house.  The other is about what happened to me after my parents kicked me out at age 16.  Both of these things effected my life and helped to shape and create the person I have become.  I can't tackle these stories head on because they are so hard to tell.  So I'll start by slipping sideways into different portions of the story and hopefully will be able one day to go back in and fill in all the important details.  Right now, today, I want to talk about what it was like, from my prospective, growing up in Pelion in the Sigmon Household.