If you inquired point-blank about the parents, she would answer that the two of them did a lot of good things for a lot of people, her dad had a law practice in White Plains, her mom was a politician, yeah, a New York state assemblywoman.

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Ms. STATON: Yeah, my dad used to come in drunk and he was abusive to my mom.

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Yeah, they got a little emotional because it turned out that Lindsey's mom, you know, after her father died when she was a teenager, you know, she raised her and her brother alone.

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