Michael Jackson overload
'It's so sad'
July 4, 2009
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WESLEY MORRIS’S article “For blacks, Jackson’s struggles mirrored their own’’ (Page A1, June 28) was written with so much compassion and skill: The way he wove together fact and metaphor painted an amazing visual portrait, and a heartbreakingly accurate one.
In one of his last interviews, where he looks like a porcelain doll, Jackson is asked about his childhood.
Wistfully he admits, “Yes, my father beat me.’’ Then he talks about how he used to see kids playing on his way to rehearsal and wished he could also play.
“It’s so sad,’’ he said in a voice that was fading out, as he was.
M. Patterson
Wellfleet
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