She visited her mother in Orlando, and later her Aunt Dot in Greenville.

"The man he had a relationship with died," Aunt Dot told me, filling in the blanks that Daniels intentionally kept in his life story.

"The babies were left on Lenny's mother's doorstep," Aunt Dot recalled.

Then Aunt Dot bounded out of her chair and hit him in the back.

"Take my camel, dear," said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.

According to Aunt Dot, he didn't live in the ghetto, and his brother spent only about five years in jail.

The Turkish woman doctor says in the book of Aunt Dot, "She is a woman of dreams.

As camels go, Aunt Dot's is portrayed as being higher, or more special, than other camels: ".

We love you Aunt Dot; you are the "cat's meow".

"He wanted Lenny to be tough," Daniels's Aunt Dot, who is his father's sister, told me.