That's amazing, man.

Well, thanks.

You know, actually, it's this whole thing started.

I was always a good writer growing up in school and I always had a talent for writing, but never thought that.

Here we sit, you know, I'm 56 years old and I wrote a book.

But this first book that I wrote took 15 years.

It didn't happen overnight.

Because I'm assuming this was a pattern, like this happened multiple times, right? Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, and that was because it was fed to me, um, by my, my mother, unfortunately.

Um, they thought it was cute and everything, and that quickly became i- a survival method.

It was kind of, how do you numb this pain? There were so many horrible, horrible things, um, that has happened.

You know, I have six unpublished chapters that didn't make the book because they were so traumatizing that I now give away for them to read, because I think it's important to know.

But I'll bring up, I'll bring up an incident, um, during my childhood that, that was, that no child should go through.

So I'm, I, I was, I grew up in New York, and this, this happened to be in the Bronx, New York.

[laughs]

Is it from your stepdad? That's a

great question.

You're the first one to really pick that one up, Melvin.

So it's in the book.

I'll tell you about it.

So my wife, who I adore, she's my lioness.

She has given 32 years of marriage, 35 years of togetherness to me.

Dunnings.