HTCAB: Chatper 1, continued

In my initial post, I mentioned how in chapter 0, Dave Hitz said the he was the "product of a tryst in a squalid Times Square flophouse and was raised by a brothel owner and his opium-using wife" and "the son of comfortable and educated middle-class parents." Well, I don't want to give away the surprise, but let's just say that after that I can certainly understand his advice:

Don't listen to my mother.