JamesBrownand drinking beer and talking. He gives Marilyn the bed. He and I sleep on the floor, and when we wake up he takes us to the House of Pancakes on Sunset Boulevard for a late breakfast. But things soon change. Once he has that first credit, his agent sends him out more regularly, and he getting attention, he generating interest. up for three shows,�he tells us over breakfast. wo are callbacks. I close. Real close,�he says. aybe then I can help you guys more.�He drinks from his coffee. ut you know I couldn stay there. I mean with Mom.�I don know if in those earlier weeks he been trying to wean us from him, or if, as the days continue to pass, he just finds himself too busy. Either way, missing him doesn get easier with time. Where before he always returned my phone calls quickly, now it takes him two or three days, sometimes longer, and I begin to think that he doesn care anymore. That I a pest. That he outgrown my company. Inside I believe differently, but then I have also learned not to trust myself. What I trying to say here is that at this point in time I am very young and vulnerable. And when you are very young and vulnerable you may make a mistake. You may be scared. You may be reckless. Most likely, you don think at all. I standing in the magic shop on Hollywood Boulevard, looking at the masks lined neatly along the shelves behind the80
