“Or else. When I was late for dinner, she’d chase me down the street, screaming at me, yelling at me, grabbing me by the hair and dragging me up the street because I wasn’t on time. But that was the era. They were all like that, the parents. That’s how they grew up, that’s how they were taught. She’d use belts, a broom, a spatula. Amazing the household items that could become enforcers.”