Boys in the Trees: A Memoir, by Carly Simon – digested read

‘Life with James Taylor was idyllic. I’d write hits. He’d go off to shoot up in the lavatory’

This day may have been the day, the very day when my identity was born. I was three years old and I was lined up with my sisters to say goodnight to my Mommy and Daddy. As they kissed Mommy and Daddy politely, it was as if a light had come on and filled my inner self with a radiant clarity. I had some childhood issues that had never been properly resolved which I needed to share with them.

“I have some childhood issues that have never been resolved that I need to share with you,” I said loudly.

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