Interesting read. Makes Virgie look good. If the stories are true, Mr. Hogan was Daddy Dearest.
“Considering our background, I have always thought that
Vickie drew the lucky straw. Her mother, Virgie, made sure that our abusive father, Donald Hogan, was never allowed to lay a finger on her and, despite what Vickie said, Virgie made sure her daughter grew up in a middle-class household.
I truly respect Virgie for keeping Vickie away from our
father as there is no doubt that, given the chance, he would have abused her too. He abused all the other women in his life,including me, his own daughter—Anna was lucky to have escaped that trauma.”
More of Chapter 1:
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/040907_chapter_one.pdf
I have read both Great Big Beautiful Doll and Train Wreck...both paint ANS as a difficult and troubled personality with a lot of issues.
The interesting thing is that the family was extremely dysfunctional and Virgie wanted NOTHING to do with any Hogans and that included Donna. Yet Donna is very complimentary of Virgie and that ANS’s stories are unfounded. She confirms that ANS was wildly out of control and Virgie struggled to keep her on the straight and narrow and that is why she sent her to Mexia.
Donna confirms that Donald Hogan (her father and ANS’s stepfather) was and is a horrible and abusive parent. ANS didn’t experience this as he left when she was an infant and it devastated Virgie when ANS established contact with him in later years.
Virgie and ANS did have a love/hate relationship as both are strong and controlling personalities. Virgie disapproved of ANS’s lifestyle and the heavy drinking, drugs and indiscriminate sex.
ANS, even as a child, was someone who was always unhappy and couldn’t be alone. Even in those early years she made things up about herself (the identity of her mother) and in later years her fabricating events and facts about herself was common.
It really is a sad story as it becomes clear that the drugs insulated her from herself.