Jamie Mustard

At the Baby Factory, which was not far from MacArthur Park, if anybody knows downtown Los Angeles, which is full of junkies, and the Rampart Police District, that was just like a really run-down tenement building with peeling paint.

And one of the stories that I talk about in the book that a caregiver reached out to me when I first started doing interviews two years ago, it was a seven-year-old girl that was taking care of me.

I'd been in this woman's head for 45 years or something.

A seven-year-old girl was taking care of you.

And how old were you?

A baby, three months old, six months old.

Unbelievable.

And I stuck in this woman's head, who's now in her 60s.

And she said to me, do you remember how they bathed you?

And I said, no, what are you talking about?

And I kind of remember staring up the ceiling as my earliest memories, if they're real.

But she said that there would be 40 kids to one or two caretakers.

So they would run a hot bath once every week or so.

And they would take off your diaper, dip you in, wipe all the stuff off.

hand you to the person that would then dry you off.

And then they would dip the next baby without cleaning the water.

So I was basically being dipped in feces for the first two years of my life.

So that was 811 Beacon Street, which was kind of just a weird, old, massive Hollywood house that had just cut and run down and was a tenement.

right on the outskirts of downtown Los Angeles.

Then we went to the place that was really the worst place of all of the experiences, which we called the Melrose Building, the red brick building, which was carpeting that hadn't been cleaned in 50 years.