and i'm having to sit their singing along to ♪ adc es g. ♪ and you learn this early on as a child theer kids are not going to like you if you are too smart, so i had to like kind of fake like i was trying to remember the letters ♪ a, b, c, d ♪ said they would like me and i remember coming home board from school why did you teach me to read and write so early? and the nuns -- i went to catholic school -- the nuns decided to skip me. i was in first grade and they moved me at second agreed. i can, excited mom, mom, and in second grade! no, you're not. [laughter] she got on the phone and called, i want him with children his own age. don't move him up a great. and you know, i'd gotten moved back. and then i was just bored through most of school. so what does a child to when he is bored but, you know, cause trouble? >> who were or are your parents? >> my mother, her name was veronica moore. she passed away in 2002. a wonderful, great mother to have. i write about her in the book. my dad is still with us. he is turning 90 this summer. his name is frank moore. gerlach on the east side of land