Growing up is never easy. This true story, "So Close to Dying," is a journey of remembrance, a narrative and photographic essay of coming of age in the 1950's and 1960's in the United States. It is the journey of a little boy to a man, moving from one misadventure to the next and filled with laughter, joy, heartache, and vulnerability on an unintentional path to maturity. As he grows up, learning to cope with life's realities: within school, within his own family, and within the sphere of his own needs and desires, he finds his struggle all-encompassing and not without peril; he also finds...