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Back Cover Front Cover Unfinished Autobiography of Aileen Wuornos Back cover Front cover Unfinished Autobiography of Aileen Wuornos Part 1: Childhood Narrative for use in the form of script or graphic novel Information for biographical purposes Life at Home o 3rd Run o Scars Family o Kid Days Life on the run Family house and neighbourhood Neighbourhood and Friendship with Dawn o Video Driving round the neighbourhood o The pits and dawn Rebel Kid o Chapter 2 o staying up all night to find out Santa wasn’t real at age 6, o burning a barn down with the gang, drugs getting to be naughty and Bombarding Keith “with Snow- o jeans, cigs and booze balls the rest of the Winter” o Dawn and Ducky fighting over clothes o age 6 or 7, eating strawberries from the garden, trying to o dreaming fantasy childhood, Clawson, pits, lori’s new port smoke the vine until realised they could rip off cigs (black tank), woods, stoney creek, parks, the mall, 15 miles o Playing with fire away jimmy e. the bizar shop, the store, where else but back Rapes to the pits, pool hall, Age 14 – Unwed mothers home in Detroit o Keith’s Crush Mums Death o Lori scooped dawn away Grandad o The Clark gas-station o Barry and Lori’s bad genes made them behave badly from o painting dawns bedroom black and getting high dads alcoholism, Keith and Aileen treated as 2nd class family o serious race hate members, until mum died and they were kicked out by dad. o getting caught smoking weed, quitting school, living in the o Nick Broomfield: Michelle Schuman recorded an incident woods with her [Aileen’s] grandfather o Relationship to dawn’s parents o Interview versions o ” sleeping rough in the pits like “a soldier/sleeping out in a Biological mum battle field. Only no gun fire, Just “Silence”” pretending to 6 October – Calumet, Michigan o cops living in dawns house, running into the woods to Pictures o escape, Institutionalisation o Winter snow / spring the pit near Atkins – running away, starving, embracing death by mud slide, gang rape, warning 15 - Pontiac, Juvenile centre to other kids o 3 weeks on the run, partying, back in court, o 2nd to last interview – after being thrown out Age 15 - Adrian Girls School, Rochester Michigan o Living - Walking round the woods o Adrian o Living in the fort with Dennis Allen o The 1st Run o last hang with Dawn, clothes and personal belongings Aileen’s writing trashed o Councillor And hows thee ol’ buddy doin!? Say I did say I’d write a letter about the good o The commune ol days I traveled through, and so if you’d like to hear a few war stories of my 17 – Own pad life’s encounters, then let me lay a few on ya so you can get an idea of just what I dealt with out there after I left Michigan at 16. Subject specific O man, tell me, tell me, tell me Aili! OK. Just hold your horses dawn and let me get my guitar out 1st so as I can Relationships do an opening number upon this camp fire before I fill ya full of tales of the 138 o Bobby Rowland highway. This ones by Bob Seager . OK. Rock + Roller...... Let me begin with. o Gene Lewis o Max Reed . I’m off to telling some tales. So get prepared. May make your hair – “fly o Boyfriend who shamed and bullied her in public way on up in thee air!.” Chhhhcccchhhhhh. o Gay hadn’t been invented yet o Protective sister . Next letter dear buddy will be on some of the things Rose + I did . I Sex havent much time left to leave these truths behind for someone to know. As you and I know., No body knows me, / at all! . So Ill share memories with o Experimenting you, therefore at least my childhood friend does, here even in writting OK. I Reputation o love ya gal. Catch ya in the next Kite. o The rollcall P.S. You may want to keep these letters seperate from others o Appeals court since they’ll contain true life events. Okee do Kee. Prostitution Incest Diary of U.S.A. In Memory of. Drugs Crime . And if ya can’t seem to recall who I am out there (in Bakersfield) Well Jobs there’s an old Nick I acquired in Detroit (before) runnin into ya’s. So used it with ya since everybody else went by nic’s. And that was. Apple. So wish ya well Bud. Keep scootin and choppin the wind . To Be Continued Love Aileen Life at Home Family Kid Days . And my memory of my kid days can go way back. So far back I amaze myself! Such as, I can recall being held in a boys blanket with 3 Women standing around starin at me and playin with my hands and nose, all of which I didn’t like at all!. Chuckle. Chhhhccchhhh. Then I remember another scene being real little. I was in a crib where my diapers were on to tight and the safety pins were digging into my hips, with me wantin this taken care of royal – as I cried my heart out for them to come and rescue me from . And as I moved on into the growing pains of life, I’d come accrosst a hot interest that’d intrigue me so. All of which would be . Music. I fell in love! Dazzled in Rock an Roll . I was gonna be another Janis Joplin or Jimi Hindrix. You name it . Then I started getting musical equipment for Christmas. I was gearin up for a band!. I had acquired now Bongo’s (a) flute and (a) harmonica., but best of all., a Wind up guitar!. Yet low and behold, I could never master those fishin strings and the fancy art of playin it. So I’d wind it up instead / allowin it to strum itself / This land is your land / as I’d pretend I was hindrex while it was. Ha Ha. And the house we lived in was built by him, couisins, and friends . While Mom prettied it up . With flower gardens . Family house and neighbourhood Well ol’ lost buddy. Sending more pictures of you of everyone if you can . If you could some day soon. Would you please take a couple color photo’s of my old house. It sits accross the Maddox’s . Please do. I’d like to see if my Mothers flowers are still around. And her trees she raised . *** From the looks of my old house in this photo, I stand in Awe! Totally amazed! The front door – “look at it closely!” it seems to be like some 20/30 inches from the screen door. Which has me believe they re-converted the Living room . The tree in the front yard is new. Some 23 years old, but wasnt my moms doin. She planted 2 trees in back, close to the house and I see there still there. Barry engraved his name at the top of the tree, one facing west – from back yard – (left hand one.) So if anyone ever cuts it down, they’ll see his name and date on the bark . The flowers! all gone. My mom worked for 33 years on all her flower beds., and rose bushes that use to line the house and the aluminum chain fencing (that now gone) use to be around the front yard. ... I’m very happy to see my house having been so cared for and (creatively kept up with) as it has. Whoever lives there. “Thank-You” . The middle section of the house we called the backroom. I feel was remodeled inside . They either built in another fire-place – (or) this new grey smoke stack deal above the house is for the suana in the garage (they kept and didnt tear down). The suana was a steam room – “finnish style” my Dad built along with the house . Say did you notice if the names on the mail boxes were still our ol’ kid These pictures are the greatest.! I need to Thank you over and over again! . friends. Like there parents still live there, or kids took over after purhaps see the little window up in the attic area of the house, above to the left over there deaths. Like Kerrs or Maddox’s or Farwells. on the roof area of the backroom. Well that little window is were Keith, Lori, and I use to skip outta . This was so we could head out to the pits – when . 4-now Love Aileen parties were going on out there . *** Randalls house. Hellooo! And Thank you for the greatest gift you could’ve ever given this gal Well, I bet Lori wished there house was like this one instead of what the locked up ... I love ya Buddy! . Last night I went to the 70(s) and just was Randalls did exist as. There house was a shample with all them kids. All boys flooded with the good ol days ... Im curious if the woods next to my house is at that.! I never could understand how Lori could live with them . Although still there . So – is there woods there? These woods we would galavant I guess it was tolerable because Keith also lived with em. Me. I was able through to reach the pits . too to. In the abandoned car. on the cinder blocks in the yard. Remember! Ha I remember savin Lori’s but from some bee’s in those woods next to Randalls Ha Ha Ha Ha.
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