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Feb 23 2011 10:34pm The scarecrow could not understand why she
wished to leave this beautiful country and go back to the gray
place called Kansas. "That's because you have no brains,"
answered the girl. "No, matter how dreary and gray our homes
are, people would rather live there than anywhere else.  There
is no place like home."  L. Frank Baum﻿  Almost all of my
childhood memories before age nine are in black and white.  I
think I've said that before. Why do I keep saying it?  Why do I
keep drifting back to that gray, long ago place?  It's getting
ridiculous.  I used to carry the shame of that overwhelming lack
of color on my shoulders.  Now, at middle age, I'm beginning to
feel the shame associated with still not being able to fill the
hole it left me.  Most people don't understand the deep reaching
impact of growing up with an emotionally disturbed parent, one
who ensnares you with th