ABSTRACT

  He carved the word fuck … into his leg. It was all part of him. He moved in and out, psychiatrics and psychologists. He’d just sit there like this … with his legs folded. The biggest, the hardest thing I ever did was leave him, when we had to leave him, at the hospitalwhen he was cutting himself. That was the fucking toughest thing I ever done. He was maybe 14. That is when I discovered how old I was. (Billy, November 11, 2007)