Genie at age `13 in 1970. She was born in 1957. She had a brother, five years older. The story really has to begin with her father. His life was a series of severe personal traumas, that he never resolved. He externalized his woundedness in brutality against his wife and children. In the years in question, he forbade any of them from ever having contact with the outside world, with the specific exception of allowing the son to attend school — and then, every day when the b