My mother and father weren't together when I was a kid growing up in Chicago, and early on my mother fell victim to drug abuse.

我还是个孩子、在芝加哥生活的时候，我爸爸和妈妈分开了。

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Many previously unknown people are also enjoying success with memoirs based on compelling personal stories, including Kevin Lewis, author of The Kid, a book about childhood abuse which has sold more than 150, 000 in the last few weeks.

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Even as the country's overprotective parents whip themselves up into a moral panic about kid-on-kid cruelty, the numbers don't point to any explosion of abuse.

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