A Need to Please “Dear Old Dad”
He ran away again, though. He only came back at 18 because his father died. “I felt lost. I no longer believed in God at all,” Kinison admitted quietly in one interview. “I’d felt my father totally wasted his life. He’d died completely broke. We didn’t even have any money for a gravestone.”
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Kinison used to say he had a “Julian Lennon thing,” and in his case, he started preaching to please “Dear old Dad.” But he wasn’t a good preacher by any means. I mean, come on…