“Every editor, every journalist was told, ‘Just don’t ask her about it,’” Moorer said. “Well, of course that was what they all wanted to know.” Then in 2010, Moorer was interviewed by poet Maya Angelou and the topic came up. Moorer, who had just given birth to her son, John Henry, gave her a standard response that stuck to the facts, but glossed over the details.
Moorer, who earned a master’s degree while writing the book, dug through family pictures, recordings, lyrics, letters and even autopsy notes that spurred what she called active remembering. “It’s surprising how much we keep buried,” Moorer said. “There were points during the writing of the book where I would literally hold onto my desk because I would be overwhelmed.”
“I realized that when you are raised in an addictive household, you’re taught, or are told either directly or indirectly to deny what you see, what you hear,” Moorer said. “And most heartbreakingly what you feel. Because nobody’s supposed to talk about Daddy’s drinking.” Lynne wrote the forward to the book, saying it “exemplifies how two sisters can face the most horrific situations and come out not only surviving them, but finding each other as women now.” One song on the album was written by her father, who wanted to be a songwriter and instilled in his daughters’ their earliest musical lessons.
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