Gonzo
Chapter One
Coming of Age in Louisville
We had guns in our cars. We shot houses, mailboxes, garbage cans. We
shoplifted. We broke into liquor stores. We'd jimmy a lock or break
a window. I never paid a hotel bill when I was with Hunter. We'd
just go out the window or the fire escape.
SANDY THOMPSON (now Sondi Wright) met Hunter in 1958 and was married
to him for seventeen years.
Hunter was born different - very different. His mother, Virginia,
and I talked a lot many, many years ago about Hunter as a little
boy. He was angry. He was charming. He was a lot of trouble. And
what I always used to say - which is interesting, in light of the
end of his life - was that he shot out of the womb angry. And then
he left that same way.
NEVILLE BLAKEMORE grew up with Hunter in the Highlands neighborhood
of Louisville, Kentucky.
My grandmother owned a house a block away from Hunter's. I couldn't
tell you the first time I met him; I just knew about him.
It was a neighborhood in which people would sit on the porch and
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