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From the Firebug’s Journal:When I was in high school, right at the end of my senior year at Oceanside High, two major events happened.
First, my mother had apparently grown sick and tired of my father’s escalating physical and mental abuse of her and me. One night late, she got up, came back to their king-size bed, and shot him twice in the head with his own .357 magnum handgun; then she lay down on the bed and shot herself in the mouth. Of course there was quite a hubbub that went on for a number of days. I went to live with my grandparents on my mother’s side. They had a home down in nearby Carlsbad. But I completed school at Oceanside High, Gramps driving me over and back each day.
The second major thing that happened after the funerals was that we got to keep some of my folks’ pe
