ABSTRACT
Carla and Dan had been married for over 40 years. They met in their early 20s: he was a musician in a band trying to “make it big,” and she was desperately trying to escape from a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and a mother with paranoid schizophrenia. It was the late 1960s. They were on the road moving from place to place, they engaged in seemingly obligatory recreational drug use of the time, and before long they found out that Carla was pregnant. They both decided that “the road” was not a place to start a family, so Carla and Dan got married and moved into Dan’s parents’ basement while Dan looked for work.
