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His sister and mother, his parents were divorced and his father was not a stable influence. >> the father was a meth amphetamine addict. it makes people dilutional, can make them violent, very abusive, both not just physically, but emotionally. >> his friend says they were protected from some of it, until their mother died. dimaggio and his sister laura, ended up living with their father, a car salesman, where they suffered years of abuse. >> jim was sort of abandoned with laura by their father. the father would just leave them with macrony and cheese and jim would go out and fish to feed him ...
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