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Jeannette a year realized she was married to the wrong person. She left him and moved somewhere simpler. Throughout the memoir she has various coming of age moments such as, attending Barnard.

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A famous quote by Rex Walls. Sporadically used throughout this memoir. This is very well an example of broken promises in Jeanette's life. Rex fails to provide much for the Walls.

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Rex walls gives Jeanette  a gift for christmas. He allows her to pick any star in the sky to claim as her own, but instead chose a planet. This is a concept of the dream/fantasy world because its Rexs way of offering everything he can offer at the moment.

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Rose Mary and Rex Walls aren't "the worlds greatest parents." Rose Mary prefers to paint and be artistic, rather than cooking a meal for her kids. Rex Walls will occasionally bring home something other than his vice. In addition he rarely comes home. "I was hungry." Jeanette burst this out because her mother was clearly upset that her kids ate the only thing left to eat. Jeannette assumed Rose Mary was going to eat it by herself.

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Maureen was born into the world and since that day Jeannette sought it out to be her job to care for her. Except along the way that doesn't always seem to be the case. Once she is 18, Maureen's life goes downhill. She then later gets sentenced to a hospital, when she leaves she moves away to the west coast; Jeannette apologizes from the sidelines during Maureen's departure. Jeannette knew she failed to take care of Maureen. "I'm sorry"

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"Get your goddamn ass back in this car" "You make, Mr Tough Guy." Rex's abrupt aggression made him chase pregnant Rose Mary and tried to run her over just to try and get her in the vehicle. Throughout their whole lives the Walls children have experienced an out of the ordinary life. Rex walls creates a scene when he gets drunk. The kids have no set of rules other than to come home when the streetlights incend. Despite this disastrous life, Brian Walls became an officer of the law.