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The Day My Little Sister Drank Gasoline and Daddy Blamed Us

hard times

Neal Wooten and his siblings grew up dirt poor in the Deep South on the wrong side of the tracks, the wrong side of the law, and the wrong side of a violent mental illness.

Neal Wooten
Neal Wooten
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Neal Wooten

Neal Wooten

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