In 1997, Peter von Ziegesar, a freelance writer living in New York, called me. Peter began by asking if I remember the day we went to pick-up his stepbrother at who was in prep school at the time. I said, yes I do.

"Well, that same boy has been living on the streets for years now and I have started getting involved in trying to help him."  

Peter went on toexplain
  • July 1998- United with his mother, Olivia James, they sit together on her back porch in Stanly, Idaho.
  • December1999-I call Peter from Philadelphia, I tell Peter I want to know about his dark side. After a scary night waiting for him in Overtown, a drug infested area of Miami, he enters his self imposed oblivion by lighting his crack pipe inhaling deeply. Peter is not A-typical of suffers of schizophrenia, for some, illegal drugs are part of the self medicating process.
    • After he inhales he waits fot the rush to drive the demon out of his head,