Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper

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THE STORY OF ART PEPPER

byArt & Laurie Pepper

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Daddy and Millie fought all the time. They’d have regular knockdown-drag-outs nearly every day. And Junior would get underneath the sink and sit there and scream bloody murder. It’s no wonder he grew up the way he did. He never did have a normal childhood. Only with Grandma, and she wasn’t affectionate enough. And he was Italian, and so, you know, he needed more affection than other people.

Millie and Daddy separated half a dozen times. It was on-again, off-again. She’d leave every whipstitch. Then, when she found the going too rough, why, she’d come back. And Daddy always took her back because, he said, to his way of thinking a child needed its mother. That was a strong point with him, even though he got to the point where he actually disliked her intensely. Still he thought that she would be better for Junior than somebody else.

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