While the book is replete with many humorous Conway family stories, such as her dad introducing his children to his favorite pastime — the art of horse betting at Santa Anita racetrack — or how she and her five brothers would run around the CBS sound stages to visit Sonny and Cher while her dad filmed the live audience “Carol Burnett Show,” it takes a sadder tone after her dad was diagnosed in his early 80s with NPH (normal pressure hydrocephalus).

It was at this time that Conway, who had a close relationship with her stepmom, Charlene, throughout the 34 years of her dad’s second marriage, began an almost three year-long struggle with Charlene.

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