end of that.
—Growing up I suffered no shortage
of my mother’s old school, Old
Testament discipline. She spared no
rod and spoiled no child. With
Andrew, she was different. He got
spankings at first, but they tapered
off and eventually went away.
When I asked her why I got
beatings and Andrew didn’t, she
made a joke about it like she does
with everything. “I beat you like
that because you could take it,” she
said. “I can’t hit your little brother
the same way because he’s a skinny