Pepperdine University
Malibu, CA
What they have to say about Childhood's Parable:
"Wonder Years goes to church" --The Wittenburg Door
"We raised him to be a nice boy"--Michael's mother
"He spelled my name `Margret' [sic] when he sent me love letters"--Margaret
"I've never forgiven him"--Maurice
"I knew he'd never amount to much."--Miss Haas, Miss Giloon, Mrs. Gross
"My son always did have an overactive imagination."--Michael's Father
"Michael was really the one no one liked."--Angela and Janet
"I have no recollection of ever dating him"--Marcia
"Indeed, the distinction between `learned' and `popular' is one which Michael seems unable to make"--A. N. Wilson
"Dad reenters the world which with the deepest part of himself he never left, that of childhood."--Michael's daughter, Creedance
"Michael is a Romantic Egoist, pass it on."--Graffitti on the bathroom wall at Stockton Elementary School