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Frank Rich's eloquent and moving boyhood memoir reveals how theater itself became a ghost light and a beacon of security for a child finding his way in a tumultuous world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRich grew up in the small-townish Washington, D.C., of the 1950s and early '60s, a place where conformity seemed the key to happiness for a young boy who always felt different. When Rich was seven years old, his parents separated--at a time when divorce was still tantamount to scandal--and thereafter he and his younger sister were labeled \"children from a broken home.\" Bouncing from school to school and increasingly lonely, Rich became terrified of the dark and the uncertainty of his future. 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