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"Fletcher Hanks grew up, married and had four children. The middle son, Fletcher Junior (1918-2008), was a major source of information about Fletcher Senior.

He would exercise his drawing skills by painting murals for wealthy patrons in Westchester, New York, then come home and spend every penny on booze...As Hanks Senior's dependence on alcohol increased he became a violently abusive husband and father. He graduated from village rouge to downright scoundrel.

It was up to the industrious Fletcher Junior, not yet even in his teens, to help support the family by repairing fishing nets in his uncle's store and selling vegetables from the garden he tended alone. One day in 1930 Junior went to make a deposit in his hidden piggy bank. The bank was gone and so was Fletcher Senior. The distraught Junior ran to his mother, Alma, who remarked at the time that "It's a small price to pay to be rid of the bum."

Paul Karasik (Introduction to You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation)
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