CHAPTER ONE: CHILDHOOD

“Gone to Carolina in my mind.  In my mind I’ve gone to Carolina. Can’t you just see the sunshine, can’t you just feel the moonshine?”                                                                –James Taylor, 1958                                   Cracked Up My mother’s mother told her in their phone call from Greenville, SC, to Oakland, CA, in late 1943 around Christmas time: “No grandson of mine should be born outside…

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