How to Cure Childhood Anxiety, One Sam Cooke Album at a Time
When Dad routinely came home after midnight, only music soothed my childhood soul
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5 min readFeb 19, 2020
My early memories of life, growing up in Stillwater, Oklahoma, are fraught. We were immigrants and my parents were full-time students working multiple jobs while trying their best to parent a child they could barely understand…