An Only Child and Her Sister
AN ONLY CHILD AND HER SISTER is a compelling true life story. Two sisters born to the same parents but treated so differently; one ended up pregnant and married at thirteen. The other didn’t fare so well. Casey and her little sister, Christine, started off with what looked like a good beginning. But looks can be deceiving. Their mother, Eve Whitney, a stunning Hollywood beauty, didn’t much care for children. Unfortunately, she had two. Their father, Eddie Maxwell, was a successful songwriter and gag man; he was a brilliant, handsome, hugely charismatic man, but he had a secret drug habit that sent him careening between warm and loving parent one day, to hair-trigger monster the next. If Casey got only sporadic moments of love and caring, Chris got nothing. Neither Eddie nor Eve ever had a kind thought for their youngest child. And so the sisters were forced to find their own paths through this horrific excuse of a childhood, each making choices that pulled them farther and farther apart when the one thing they needed was each other. Told without an ounce of self-pity or bitterness, this story is unique as well as universal. The scenes of pain and incredible neglect live side by side with amazing moments of humor, courage, and triumph.
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About the Author
Casey Maxwell Clair has worked in the entertainment industry for over twenty-five years. She began her career designing major motion picture campaigns and subsequently served as the director of advertising for Warner Bros. and ABC Motion Pictures, as well as vice president of advertising and promotion for CBS Television Network. After that, she spent the next decade as a successful comedy writer and television producer for several hit sit-coms. Ms. Clair authored the well received Still Single: Are You Making Yourself Unavailable when You Don't Want to Be? What to Do About It, a book on relationships in which she explored her own penchant for choosing unavailable men. She examined ways in which to change this behavior and promptly met an available man with whom she fell in love; they have now been married for fourteen years. Clair and her husband, producer and screenwriter Christopher Beaumont, live in Los Angeles and are currently at work on a feature screenplay.