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Jeanette went on to write The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses and remarried to the writer John Taylor

Brian became a decorated sergeant detective in the police force and prides himself on rebuilding houses

Jeanette’s mother seemed to do just fine without her husband being around

Maureen joined a cult in California

Lori works at a law firm in Manhattan to support herself as an artist

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1. After Battle Mountain, Jeanettes family flees to Phoenix after her grandma passed, to inherit her house

2. Since their father hated civilization and the big city, he couldn’t keep a job for very long.

3. They got sick of the big city and decided to move to Welch

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One night when I was almost ten, I was awakened by someone running his hands over my private parts. At first it was confusing. Lori and I slept in the same bed, and I thought maybe she was moving in her sleep. I groggily pushed the hand away.
"I just want to play a game with you," a man's voice said.
I recognized the voice. It belonged to a scraggly guy with sunken cheeks who had been hanging around North Third Street recently.
Brian and Jeanette yelled and chased the man out with a hatchet and a bat.

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Jeannette currently resides on a 205-acre farm outside of Culpeper Virginia with her husband John Taylor. She did tell Times that the move to the countryside was a bit unnerving at first.

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Just watching the trailer for Oscar-winner Brie Larson's new film, , makes it feel like your heart is going to break. Based on the memoir of the same name, The Glass Castle details the story of one woman's childhood, which was spent mostly living in poverty with parents who were big on dreams but low on real-world sensibility. While the film is set to look back on her rocky past, where is The Glass Castle author Jeannette Walls today?

With her story set to reach a bigger audience than ever before, it's only natural to question how Walls is getting on in the world these days. After working for more than 20 years as a gossip columnist and writer with bylines at outlets like MSNBC.com, Esquire, and New York magazine, Walls left New York City, according to a recent profile in the New York Times, and moved to a 205-acre horse farm in Virginia with her husband, journalist John Taylor. The author is currently enjoying the quietude of farm life, although she told the Times that the move to the countryside was a bit unnerving at first.

"I didn't think I'd like it out here. But I thought, let's give it a shot," Walls says in the profile. "I will say that I have always had the compulsion to put down roots. I love having a house. I love belonging someplace."

Additionally, if you're a fan of Walls' writing (thank to her work as a gossip columnist or The Glass Castle), you'll be happy to know she's written novels both before and since the 2005 release of The Glass Castle. Her two novels, Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel and, were published in 2009 and 2013, respectively. Additionally, she wrote a book in 2000 about her life as a gossip columnist titled Dish: How Gossip Became the News and News Became Gossip.

Finally, while it seems that Walls is quite content to live quietly on her farm (and possibly write still), she does occasionally attend events. In fact, later this year, she will be the guest of honor at two separate Q&A's, where she'll imaginably get to speak about her life and work.

After a childhood spent impoverished and rootless and then moving on to a successful career as a gossip columnist and memoirist, it sounds like Walls has not only found her home, but she's found contentment, too.

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'The Glass Castle' Was Just The Start For Jeannette Walls

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Just watching the trailer for Oscar-winner Brie Larson's new film, The Glass Castle, makes it feel like your heart is going to break. Based on the memoir of the same name, The Glass Castle details the story of one woman's childhood, which was spent...

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Jeanette’s first experience with swimming was when her father took her swimming in a hot sulfur spring . The water was warm and smelled like eggs. He threw her out to the middle and he told her to sink or swim. He went to save her, let her catch her breath, and threw her back out until she started to figure it out on her own and swam by herself.

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Jeanette is embarrassed about her family because she doesn’t want to reveal that her parents are homeless. She does this by lying about what they do for a living when asked what business they had in Welch.

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Jeanette’s mother asks Jeanette to borrow some money from Eric for her Uncle Jim’s land in Texas:

“I don’t know how much it’s worth, because I never had it appraised. I was never going to sell it. My father taught me you never sell land. That’s why we have to buy Uncle Jim’s land. We have to keep it in the family.”
“You mean you own land worth a million dollars?” I was thunderstruck. All those years in Welch with no food, no coal, no plumbing, and Mom had been sitting on land worth a million dollars (Walls 273).

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Jeannette lost her father to a heart attack two weeks after visiting him in the hospital when he was sick.

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Billy smushed his face against mine, then grabbed my hair and made my head bend sideways and stuck his tongue in my mouth. It was slimy and disgusting, but when I tried to pull away, he pushed in toward me. The more I pulled, the more he pushed, until he was on top of me and I felt his fingers tugging at my shorts”

“Guess what?" Billy shouted. "I raped you!” (Walls 54).

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Jeanette sets her heart on colleges in New York. When her teacher tries to get her to stay. She realized that there was nothing left for her in Welch.

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Jeanette Walls’ House while she and her family lived in Welch

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Lori left for a summer camp and her mother left for Charleston. Jeannette was left with her drunk father to fend for herself and Maureen.

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Jeanette’s mom got an inheritance from her grandmother and she used the money to buy things that weren’t necessary for their current situation

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Rex endangers his family and especially Jeanette by drinking while driving and actually sends her flying out the window.

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When asked in college about the class’ ideas on homelessness and if it was the result of drug abuse and misguided entitlement programs or cuts in social-service programs and failure to create economic opportunity for the poor, Jeannette replies “Sometimes, I think, it’s neither.” Jeanette was too embarrassed to say why she thought it was that way because she didn’t want to reveal that she grew up homeless.

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She found a hobby she loved in Welch

“When I was a junior, Miss Bivens made me the editor in chief, though the job was supposed to go to a senior” (Walls 231).

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Jeanette and Her Sister Get Very Hungry.

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Jeanette and Her Sister Get Very Hungry.

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Jeanette and her sister said to their mother that they were hungry. Her mother went off on them and said that it wasn’t her fault.

"It's not my fault if you're hungry!" she shouted. "Don't blame me. Do you think I like living like this? Do you?”(Walls 43).