He would fantasize about heroically saving her from kidnappers and then marrying her afterwards. Albertine, who was engaged to an English teacher at the same school by the name of Mr. Becoming a Police Officer Comic Book HeroismĪt 14 years of age, Hollis found himself stricken by his math teacher, Ms. Though they were quick to stop and apologize to the man for doing so, he in turn forgives them but ends up taking his own life later the same day. Mason and his father, most likely due to the bizarre nature of the scene before them, begin to laugh at him. One day they found Vernon sitting alone, listening to Richard Wagner, wearing a pair of fake breasts and tells them how his wife had left him and had cheated on him for two years. Ride of the ValkyriesĮven so, Mason assisted his father with work and at times ran errands for the owner of the repair shop, Moe Vernon, who in turn would come to enjoy the company of the young man. Longing to go back to Montana, where his grandfather had stayed, and knowing that his father felt guilty for leaving, he'd often say that he would rather return there than stay in the city whenever he ended up squabbling with his father. When Mason was 12 years old, his father decided to take him and his sister Liantha away from the family farm in Montana and move to New York City where his father found work at Vernon's Auto Repairs. Instilling in him a sense of what was good and just in the world which would be a part of him for the rest of his life. Named after his grandfather, Hollis Wordsworth Mason, who also saw to it that his grandson received a proper moral, conservative and god-fearing upbringing.

Mason was born into a family of Irish immigrant farmers in 1916 who had settled in the state of Montana.

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