Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights:#1 I was born in 1951, in Manhattan, Kansas. My parents had barely finished high school when they got married, and they soon had me. They chose the name Cassandra after one of my mother’s teachers, who had dated my father. I was a freakish name for 1951 rural Kansas.#2 My father was a salesman, and he was very good at it. He had a fierce competitive streak, and he could always cajole, beg, or threaten people into doing what he wanted. When I was still alive after a night and a day in the hospital, the doctors treated me with a new derivative of penicillin.#3 I loved going to the drugstore with my cousin Jeannie. She would take me up on the high metal stools at the soda fountain, and we would order two chocolate phosphates, which were shot of chocolate syrup and seltzer water stirred together.#4 I loved going to the 5 10. It was like a mini-library, and I could spend hours there reading comics and drinking sodas. I would often daydream about flying like Superman.