{"product_id":"9780531228883","title":"I Love Dinosaurs","description":"The year was 1965 and I was in downtown Dallas parading thru Neiman Marcus in a Batgirl costume at thirteen years old--instead of the cheerleading uniform I had just been fitted for--promoting the Batman book that my stepmother had written. You don't know crazy until you've lived with it, through it, and survived it! That would be 'Crazy Beth'...once heralded as a 'heroine' who survived the plane crash at Love Field when I was six years old. My dad, Spencer Black, Texas oilman, had a heart attack at the controls of his plane and his fifth wife, Beth, lived to tell her story. Now, as Paul Harvey would say, is the \"\"rest of the story\"\"--my siblings and I survived Beth! \u003cp\u003eUntil this day in downtown Dallas, no one knew what was really going on behind the doors of the Mediterranean mansion on Lakewood Boulevard after my dad's death. I will take you on a journey of stories that are sometimes humorous, scary, sad, upsetting, and definitely bizarre....like the Batgirl story! My siblings and I continued to survive years of her mental illness, alcoholism, abuse and neglect, which ultimately led to foster care. This is a true-life story of 'Riches to Rags' but also one of survival--and ultimately life after Beth and in spite of Beth--told with my therapeutic sense of humor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014145720560,"sku":"9780531228883","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780531228883_p0.jpg?v=1763710993","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780531228883","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}