Mark's Story
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Mark would hitch-hike from there having long hair and wearing his cobra jacket.
When Mark was a kid, his parents gave him the ability to play when he was free. He learned to play hard, right, and fair. Your toys got bigger and better. For Mark and his friends, drugs were their new toys to play with. He went to his friends to get drugs and bought them with money, which were then inexpensive. He never showed his parents, and he learned to get away with things around them since he knew their limits. After he was 12, he only had one parent. In school, everyone was doing drugs, it seemed. Even the jocks and “prissys” did it later. You could be a jock, freak, or greaser. The greasers wore black leather jackets and were “carheads.” They worked on cars, got drunk, and beat each other up. Eventually the freaks and the greasers blended together. Most males had dads to help them work on their cars, so Henry got Mark to work on cars.
In February 1971, Mark lived with his mother in an apartment. As a teenager, Mark hitch-hiked back to his old neighborhood every day that he could. It was a five or ten mile ride. He’d party with his friends until nine or ten p.m., then hitch-hike home by
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About the Book
Mark’s Story is a story of a boy growing up in the U.S. in the late 1950’s and 1960’s and the changes in his life. He grew up with a closeness to nature, which was later replaced by a closeness to the world of drugs. Mark’s stories are true and funny and unbelievably wild. He gradually finds his way out of the drug world after some tough times.
About the Author
Linda S. Johnson is educated with an M.S. degree in Geology. She has some scientific writings published. Her first published book is her own autobiography, “My Story”(2004). “Mark’s Story” is the biography of her husband Mark, as he told it to her.