This segment, titled β€œThe Perfect Monster,” is about my attempts to avoid dealing with the raging, irrational part of my experience that I tried desperately to hide, walling it off on the other side of my facade as a suburban baby boomer, born and raised in the cradle of Southern California affluence. Maybe it could be more accurately called a monster of memories, a creature of incredible anger, capable of reeling off one frightening memory after another, seemingly endlessly and without remorse. LINKED HERE is the story.

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