When Mental Illness Is Your Family Heirloom
by Angela Helm from on (#4F694)
You know that scene in My Cousin Vinny where Vinny's girlfriend, Mona Lisa Vito, played by Marissa Tomei, testifies in court as an "expert witness" on cars? When opposing counsel condescendingly asks how a sweet little lady like herself-a hairdresser, even-could be an authority on automobiles, she replies, "My father"