Seven Hours and 15 Days
Purple Rain came out in 1984. I was seven years old. I had just learned that the man I had called dad my entire life was, in fact, not. Shortly after learning that I was forced to move to Oceana, WV with my mom and "new" dad. Oceana could be described in one word - white. It was lily white, snowflake white, milk and paper white. We lived in a one bedroom HUD project apartment. My parents were young, irresponsible and in the beginning stages of their soon-to-be crippling drug
