European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ha4 submitted his per Ary to the real people a Small Hus Sonal diary to the real people a ban wife Book publishing team in the real people press offem him a 10 percent Royal which he and printed copies of Notti to my struggle to become a without any National Book reviews or per Sonal appearances by author the diary has sold and has gone into its 1 dont want to listen to just what you i want to feel what you Prawur says in a typical aphorism in his which was written during the three years he lived in Texas As a graduate and in Southern Colorado As a ranch aphorism author Prather an exercise in being on who is fast becoming a cult a sort of american Khalil does not consider himself a deep thinker or but for a person who dropped out of College twice and never held a Job for More than a few years at a Prather is carving a lucrative Niche in the inspirational Book Bantam the largest publisher of recently signed him to a contract that guarantees him a year Over three years for the rights to reprint notes to this int the 39yearold Prather said in a but was discounted by her male literary shoved her 4frpage Tomt into a desk drawer my what about father she Ihra acquired who quickly we the Book to Deu fits not that i didst think fitter Wai May says in saying that unless father raised k fed held you and toilet trained he cannot emotional pattern of How you relate to of what the Book is saying is that it is really the Nola lion b we have with Mother that determines the pattern for intimate relationships of our this is where the to is and unless a woman understands she i Likely to try and change the pattern if life keeps in her Bat again my rat is often the of a Mother who want an emotionally giving who likes to describe the Mother daughter re to As Lite great  subject and Hast Drew an overflow crowd when the spoke k subject recently at a York women pm All for mothers and daughters being she the but one place i really draw the line is j dont think daughters should Tell their sex its what youre doing is asking for her and you dont need your mothers approval for Mai i a speech that obviously opened a lot of d Over women in the audience raised their to talk about their own Mother daughter relation nod of which seemed to be several teemed near tears As they b married one woman and i still feel r bring friends with other because my res so threatened by so y advised dont Tell whose father died when she was 2 years 1 in by her she went on to Wellesley briefly edited a travel and then began writing books after she married Manville in her previous books Are my secret a Best Selling study of women sexual and its forbidden Friday Sau Bat writing my Mather mutely Wai most painful thing Ive Ever Ive Alnut had this Coal thing with my Mother she was always much closer to my staler Aad the Book made me Reallie How emotionally tied i am to she said that As a result of her mothers she always Felt that the men she had relationship with before her marriage would desert i know my Hus loves she but 1 still dream at night that Bill ii going to leave the Book she has drawn her closer to her who now lives in i like myself More and i feel Calmer about her i dont expect As much of in not looking for the perfect Mamma when asked what mothers could do to change fridays first suggestion was that they Start Rais ing their daughters More the Way they raise dont train their daughters in courage the Way they do their a Little boy teams through repetition and practice that accidents happen in a Little girls Falls out of a tree and her Mother i told you so she Doest try it As a women Are frightened they just Haven had the repell Lious practice of the Alffie rules of they grow up packed in Cotton she added thai mothers should free their daughters to turn to surrogate such As aunts or teachers withal resenting the fact we need More than one Mother for every child us author said that one of her too lip was that no matter Bow often women swear they will never become like their they usually wind of very much like we swear we will never become critical or yell at our husband when be drives too or Over pro text our but to and we do those its All because were so tied to and it would break that lie if we we rent ans Ous and Friday will probably never get to practice what she preaches on a daughter of her because she and her husband have decided not to have some people Are Good at parenting and were Good at Ether i dont believe in the maternal ii int something that every woman automatically does i still have these Aiu Petiet and and 1 dont want to pass them on to another Telephone interview from Santa where he lives with his Gayle a its an exercise in being on the diary is a collection of random thongs and such at when Brace Sahlbe bad trouble getting along with his 1 used urn i like a Man with especially when be knows to err human in uncomfortable around some if not thinking Rattler is some sort of Revere his they hang them on their Walls at Telephone him at All hours and write to him with their some women propose others include nude photographs with their in no better than anyone Prather said in what he called his first National that what the diary in a Klutz like everyone have a lot of problems and i write about its a very personal Book and people going through the same problems can relate to Bookas written in moments of pain and i think it people who Are experiencing pain appreciate this some of prathers experiences come from having had seven including a drug two an institutionalized mentally in a convicted Mur Derer and a convicted 1 have 13 Brothers and yet in an Only Prather stumped when asked the ratio of Brothers Prather was raised in Dallas and attend ing a Christian scientist at he dropped out of College and went into the real estate business and got his Hugh Prather built one of the first shopping centers in but when i was i realized Bath real estate and marriage want Lorsa i got divorced Aad weal to new York to study sculpture at Columbia for a be for the next few Prather was a school guidance Counselor in Glen and then went to College at Southern methodist where he met his second the partners soon afterwards moved to Austin and the writing who now lives in a self designed buyer Fly shaped Adobe on s acres of land he has published two other volumes of diaries f touch he Earth in and Natti on Tow and Cour recently both by its easy to write but in not going to publish any Prather although acknowledging that he still kept with the Money now flowing Ora Winders whether who wrote diaries out of pain for so Many is finally happiness is a momentary in now capable of experiencing but i have my of problems among which i can find very Happy or Prather is sure about one thing not being sure about As he wrote in Natty to myself i live from one tentative conclusion to the think ing each one is the Only thing i know 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