Preface : "sons of madness": a club nobody would join if they had a choice -- Mike: "Nobody cared until my family was destroyed" -- David: "My mother's lobotomy saved my life" -- Patrick: "Dad was like a dark shadow" -- Mark: "If you leave the house you'll be murdered!" -- Ben: "our family code : protect dad at all costs" -- Thomas: "she must have hundreds of cuts on her body" -- Brian: "Just understand your father, for my sake" -- Robert: "I called them the "nightly shows -- all violence" -- Tim: "Mom painted her bedroom midnight blue" -- Josh "It was emotional incest. Mom said, 'what's wrong with that?'" -- Randall: "My first memory? Her trying to strangle me" -- Christopher: "I should have been able to save her."
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