Characters (real People)
- Gary McCullough: a drug addict. Father of DeAndre and ex-husband of Fran. He dropped out of college when Fran became pregnant and became addicted to drugs after their marriage ended. Burns and Simon wrote that after he died of an overdose after nearly getting clean, "we didn't write a word for months".
- Denise Francine "Fran" Boyd: a drug addict. Mother of DeAndre and DeRodd. Lives in the "Dew Drop Inn" with her sisters, Bunchie and Sherry, and brother Stevie and his son.
- DeAndre McCullough: a high school student and some-time drug dealer. Son of Gary McCullough and Francine "Fran" Boyd. Years after the book was published, on August 1, 2012, he was found dead at the age of 35, from an apparent drug overdose.
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