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My Dad did not like me enough to hit. My dad thought he was disciplining. My dad never thought he was being abusive - ever. He always thought he was doing the right thing, and he did not like me enough to do the right thing by me. Which would have been to whip me - literally - into shape.

My guitarist husband, Mike, and writer me are the old-fashioned kind of bohemians. Not 'fro-haired hipsters gyrating in iPod ads, but the sort who, starting January 1 of every year, literally don't know where their next dime is coming from.

My guess is the government has spent at least that much themselves, ... and there have been literally hundreds of FDA people involved in this over a four-year period of time.

My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.

My grandfather left Cuba when Castro came into power and literally left everything. He had two suitcases and two kids and showed up in New Jersey and waited for my uncle to meet up with him. Imagine - there were no cell phones back then!

My eye was literally pushed out of the socket. The pain was so bad, it was past being a headache. There's no such thing as a headache like that.

My eye was literally pushed out of the socket.

My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.

He literally waved a white flag, or a T-shirt, and came out and surrendered to our folks, ... He saw the police presence and thought it was obviously in his best interest.

He literally was demon possessed with the bottle, ... In that regard, he's not like 'Nuke' LaLoosh.