![]() That amount of money helped keep the Wallace family afloat. She received a monthly support check of $55 from the government. Wallace's mother had been married before, but her husband had died in World War II, leaving her a widow at the young age of 17. Eight children in the family, six boys and two girls, didn't make things any easier. Moving his brood from home to home in Tennessee, the first house he actually bought he set fire to in order to collect on the insurance. His alcoholic father doesn't do such a great job in taking care of his family. ![]() Wallace was born into a family and poverty that threatned to destroy him. In Douglas Wallace's memoir, Everything Will Be All Right, this is the mantra that he repeats from childhood. ![]()
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