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I didn’t want to revisit such a painful part of my past, much less do so in such a public forum. However, I yearned for closure and understood I’d only find it by returning to the place where all the wounds were inflicted. While I expected it to hurt, I could never have imagined just how much. “It still looks beautiful from the air,” I said to acclaimed talk-show host Alan Queen, as we flew over what remained of the Jamestown settlement in Northwest Guyana. It was November 18, 2013, thirty-five years to the day since my father, The Reverend John James orchestrated the mass murder/suicide that lead to the deaths of more than nine hundred friends, comrades and family members. Water raced down my cheeks as we made our final …show more content…

“I know it’s an emotional topic, but try to keep it clean.” “Sorry,” Clifton replied. “Anyway, I think this phony loved being Dad’s little enforcer.” I was dazed, like I’d been blindsided by an uppercut from Mike Tyson. I was lied to, on the ropes and not prepared to counter. “All the catharsis meetings,” he said. “You know, when you, Mother, Dad and whatever mistress he chose to showcase before the community and humiliated, even physically abused us.” I couldn’t argue. It was all true, so I deemed it best to sit back, listen and continue to absorb whatever crap he wanted to sling my way. I kept my head down, but that didn’t stop Queen from prancing forward, kneeling before me and shoving the mic in my face. “Seth?” he asked. “Care to respond?” What I wanted to do was lunge forward, pummel Queen into a coma and string him up by his nuts for betraying my trust, but managed to maintain enough self-control and instead, shifted my focus to Clifton. “Sean, if you paid attention to any of those interviews,” I replied, in a snarky manner. “I said my father was a crazy, evil man. I admit, some of my actions were bad, but I don’t think you could imagine what it was like being his only biological child.”

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