They didn't really have a childhood. Just them and Mom and then her liver went and she died and it was just them. Except — Gerry Boyle, Borderline
They didn't really have a childhood. Just them and Mom and then her liver went and she died and it was just them. Except — Gerry Boyle, Borderline
They didn't really have a childhood. Just them and Mom and then her liver went and she died and it was just them. Except — Gerry Boyle, Borderline
They didn't really have a childhood. Just them and Mom and then her liver went and she died and it was just them. Except — Gerry Boyle, Borderline
They didn't really have a childhood. Just them and Mom and then her liver went and she died and it was just them. Except — Gerry Boyle, Borderline
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They didn't really have a childhood. Just them and Mom and then her liver went and she died and it was just them. Except they never learned to be grown-ups. And they never learned to be just kids, either. Stuck in never-never land. Kinda sad.

— Gerry Boyle, Borderline
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