Anderson Cooper

My dad left behind a box of slides.

And he was in the Korean War, but I never talked to him about where he was in the Korean War.

And did he ever kill anybody?

We never talked about it, but he left these slides behind.

And using the internet, I was able to find out where these pictures of him at war were taken.

The front line.

He was on the front lines of the Korean War.

Brutal.

And I knew him as a real estate man.

But I met him as a soldier writing the book, which was amazing.

I did.

I had a really wonderful conversation with Kathy because, again, if you dig, if you look for these crumbs, I found a piece in a small local newspaper from Palm Springs where she had been part of like a weekly book club.

And she came in with this book and said, this is the best book I've ever read.

and was effusive about how it spoke to her.

So the book was called The Fairy Doll, and I couldn't go fast enough to find this book.

And I read the book, and it was a thinly veiled account of her own feeling like she was not a part

of most of the lives of the people who judged her because she was bipolar and painfully so at a time when people really didn't have room in their hearts or minds for that kind of situation.

So she had found a book where...

where the salvation for that feeling of being left out and pushed away from crowds and friendship was music.

That was the theme of this book.