When you lose your childhood, you lose everything. You have suspicion, distrust and fear of anything and everything that comes near....
My name is Likely, Homan Likely ‘The Kite-Boy’. I wanted to be like them, to belong, to be a part of the human race, but they wouldn’t let me in. Not if the man who wore the Russian hat had anything to do with it. What happened...!
I was beaten, tortured, humiliated and nearly killed. I was ridiculed, laughed at, spat at and was told that I stink. I fell in love with Suzie Steinbeck, the beautiful one. I tried to commit suicide and swore I saw the face of Jesus Christ... honest. I discovered the winds upon a northern moor. I discovered the sheer wickedness of one human being to another, and I caught the shape of her bra through the top of her blouse. I discovered sex, the shipping forecasts, death, God and the universe, Oh, and a ghost I called Clarence...I discovered life.
This is a story of one extraordinary childhood.