Chapter 14

When I was 13 years old, I discovered my love of movies.  I grew up in a very poor household, my parents were divorced, and I was raised by my mother on a very small maintenance grant.  One of the benefits of high school was making new friends, and I was fortunate enough to befriend a young man by the name of Martin Solomon.  Martin came from an upper middle class family and introduced me to the technologies of those days, which I would not otherwise have had access to.  This included VHS video machines and Commodore 64 computer games amongst others.  I could recall spending hours over the weekends just watching movies with him and his family.  Those were the days of Nightmare on Elm Street, Bloody Valentine, Lethal Weapon, and Dirty Danci...

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