Alaina Urquhart

That said, Nilsen himself acknowledges his tendency to blend fantasy with memory and reality with reality.

not reality um when recounting events from his life so it's kind of impossible to know which aspects of his early biography are true and which are pieces he made up you know yeah that's tough um not because they never were able to like identify this person right they don't even know if he actually walked into the ocean exactly right it might have never happened okay

Now, not long after the death of his father, Elizabeth married a second time to a man named Adam Scott.

Adam Scott is not the one that was on Parks and Recreation.

Oh, I forgot that was Adam Scott.

Not Ben Wyatt.

Unlike her previous husband, Scott was a local man with strong connections to the area and a solid work history in the building trade.

He was, according to author Brian Masters, quote, a quiet, solid, and reliable man who gave her four more children in four years.

Okay, wow.

Yeah, a lot of kids.

Getting busy.

So if Elizabeth Nilsen had maintained a casual and detached relationship to her children before her second marriage, she definitely doubled that marrying Scott.

Babe, why'd you have four more?

And adding four more children to the house.

Also, the additional kids in the house pushed Dennis further away from his mother and deeper into isolation.

Okay.

He wrote, "...in those days I could hate Adam Scott very easily.

I sometimes felt that we, the Nilsen kids, were an impediment to my mother's fulfillment in her new life and family."

That's a very common feeling.

It is.