![]() ![]() She enters postcollegiate life with a five-year plan to put the "girl who grew up in garbage" (with fleas and rats) behind her. The second half of Miller's book is a testament to her strength. ![]() Finally, she became so desperate to escape the mess that she downed a handful of painkillers. (It did.) As a teen, Miller never allowed anyone into her home she couch surfed at friends' houses and even slept in her car to avoid the filth. Long before a TV show about the behavior-or even a diagnosis for it-existed, Miller grew up navigating her dad's "papers" (as they innocuously termed the junk he compulsively collected), dodging child-welfare agents, and praying their house would burn down. (New Harvest), the laws of Kimberly Rae Miller's childhood universe were dictated by her father's hoarding (often a symptom of broader mental issues) and her mother's struggle with it. As chronicled in her careful memoir, Coming Clean But when we're children, their issues are our demons, their transgressions our future therapy bills. ![]() One perk of adulthood, for most of us, is the realization that we're no longer on the hook for our parents' problems. ![]()
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