偶像的一生(2)很有节奏感

Then the children came along, and l kept singing. 2300 Jackson st, in that little house.

l was the only one born in that house. We had two bedrooms in our home.

And l and my sisters, Janet and La Toya, Slept in the living room.

We had a couch that let out into a bed. My brothers slept in one room.

And that room had triple bunk beds. And they slept on the bunk beds.

And then my parents slept in the other room. l don't know how l squeezed all of us

in that little house. Having all my children when

I was young and having them so close together, every time l would get pregnant, l was afraid to tell Joe.

We didn't believe in abortion, so that's why we got so many children.

The children around our neighbourhood, especially the boys, they were kind of bad, some of them.