After a few months on the road with the Wrestling tour…Jamie and Glenn were pretty cozy with each other…and chances are if they were fogging up the windows of Glenn's rented SUV…it was not because someone locked them in there…Me and Mark on the other hand…had really started to enjoy each others company…talking after the shows every night…the two subjects we avoided with each other without realizing it was why I was blind…and the fact that Mark had been married and his wife had been accidentally killed during a wrestling show…I didn't know about his Wife…and he didn't know why I was blind…
We would meet in the middle of the ring after the shows…after the crew took the ropes down…and would sit or lay in the middle and he'd talk with me while I was writing up a new script…something to make the censors crazy…Mark loved to read my work and we were very comfortable with each other…I think in my own way I was having feeling for Mark that I shouldn't have been…and I just kept them to myself…I didn't even tell Jamie…and I told that girl everything…
One night, I had finished the script so we were just sitting there laughing about the way a few of the writers kept making Glenn's character Kane funny…they had him kissing girls, talking and having fun…which Glenn really enjoyed…and with Jamie by his side…the duo was unstoppable…Yup you guessed it, Glenn got a hold of Vince and practically begged to let him have Jamie as his valet.
Mark said, "So, I know we never talk about it…but…" I stopped him and said, "You want to know how I became blind...right?" Mark said, "Yea…how'd you know?" I said, "Someone always does…" Mark said, "You don't have to tell me…you can always tell me it's none of my damn business…I don't mind." I smiled and said, "No…I don't mind…I'd been avoiding the subject for a while…I guess now is as good a time as any to talk about it right…" Mark said, "Sure…As long as you want to."
I settled and got comfortable…and breathed in and out heavy a couple of times and said, "Well…I was 10…and it had been 7 years since my parents divorced…and my mother was heavily into drinking anything alcohol she could get her hands on…it didn't get really bad until my dad moved out of the states with his big breast blonde secretary, who he'd been cheating on my mother with when they were still married…and that last year she had started to drink before she even got home…so by the time she got home that night she was fairly shit faced…"
I moved around a little and my body temperature went cold every time I told the story…I touched my lips with my freezing cold finger tips trying to remember all the details…I let out a heavy sigh and continued, "So, Mom let the baby sitter go home…when she walked into the bathroom she saw me playing in her make-up and started yelling and screaming at me about it…but after living with her for those 7 years, you learn how to tune drunks out…and well the last thing I remember hearing her say was 'I have told you repeatedly not to play in my make up, and yet you still insist on doing it…I think it's time I taught you a lesson'…she grabbed my hair at the back of my head and slammed my face into the vanity mirror…the baby sitter hadn't fully left the house…she called the cops and an ambulance…but the shattered pieces of mirror had done damage to my corneas, for some strange reason, it didn't damage my lens's, pupils or anything else…just my corneas…so doctors said I'd have to wait until I was at least 18 for a double cornea transplant to get my vision back…so I've been on a waiting list since I was 18."
Mark said, "Jesus…How do you come back from something like that?" I said, "Not easily…obviously I have a lot of hate towards my mother…She was a lawyer and even she couldn't argue her way out of child abuse and attempted murder…which is what the courts threw at her…she's still in prison…and I lived in a private institution for the blind in up state New York…Jamie's parents brought her up there or took me to stay with them every weekend…I stayed in that place until I was 17…and me and Jamie got an apt…the same one we live in right now…"