“I was an orphan. I grew up in Pennsylvania in a whorehouse. I read about Milton Hershey and his school in Coronet magazine or some other crap the girls left by the toilet. And I read that some orphans had a different life there. I could picture it. I dreamt of it—of being wanted. Because the woman who was forced to raise me would look at me every day like she hoped I would disappear. Closest I got to feeling wanted was from a girl who made me go through her john's pockets while they screwed. If I collected more than a dollar, she'd buy me a Hersey bar. And I would eat it alone in my room with great ceremony...feeling like a normal kid. It said ‘sweet’ on the package. It was the only sweet thing in my life.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 6: In Care Of
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