Carine McCandless:
[voice-over] The year Chris graduated high school,
he bought the Datsun used and drove it cross-country. He stayed away
most of the summer. As soon as I heard he was home, I ran into his room
to talk to him. In California, he'd looked up some old family friends.
He discovered that our parents' stories of how they fell in love and got
married were calculated lies masking an ugly truth. When they met, Dad
was already married. And even after Chris was born, Dad had had another
son with his first wife, Marcia, to whom he was still legally married.
This fact suddenly redefined Chris and me as bastard children. Dad's
arrogance made him conveniently oblivious to the pain he caused. And
Mom, in the shame and embarassment of a young mistress, became his
accomplice in deceit. The fragility of crystal is not a weakness but a
fineness. My parents understood that a fine crystal glass had to be
cared for or it may be shattered. But when it came to my brother, they
did not seem to know or care that their course of secret action brought
the kind of devastation that could cut them. Their fraudulent marriage
and our father's denial of his other son was, for Chris, a murder of
every day's truth. He felt his whole life turn, like a river suddenly
reversing the direction of its flow, suddenly running uphill. These
revelations struck at the core of Chris' sense of identity. They made
his entire childhood seem like fiction. Chris never told them he knew
and made me promise silence, as well.
I took these qouts from his book , cause I became interested about him
life for me he’s hero ,
He lived the ultimate
freedome ,
. let’s start his
journey,
