Andrew Moss was a retired banker and former hometown mayor of Woodstock, Illinois and was removed from his childhood home in the second grade. The author, along with his four siste...ver maisAndrew Moss was a retired banker and former hometown mayor of Woodstock, Illinois and was removed from his childhood home in the second grade. The author, along with his four sisters, was the child of a chronic alcoholic father and a mentally retarded mother. Moss spent eleven years in a children’s home.ver menos