![]() Lori showed them some of her drawings, and they said she had real talent. ![]() One day, two filmmakers from New York City visited the older children’s school as part of a cultural appreciation tour. Among the many revelations about hopeless alcoholic visionary father Rex, introvert artistic teacher mother Mary Rose, and their four children who were always moving to avoid debt and homelessness, is the story of how Lori, the oldest child and a talented artist and linguist, had to fight hard for her autonomy, eventually escaping to New York. Hers might have been just one of many dysfunctional American family histories, had it not been for her younger sister Jeanette’s decision to write about the Walls family in the best-selling 2005 memoir The Glass Castle. ![]() Amazing how far people can go with little help.’ This is Lori’s short but heartfelt introduction to herself in a blog post of 2012. ![]() I have become an illustrator in New York, despite the mess of a childhood I lived. ![]()
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