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Chris Langans mother was from San Francisco and was estranged from her family. She had four sons, each with a different father. Chris was the eldest. His father disappeared before Chris was born; he was said to have died in Mexico. His mothers second husband was murdered. Her third committed suicide. Her fourth was a failed journalist named Jack Langan. To this day I havent met anybody who was as poor when they were kids as our family was, Chris Langan says. We didnt have a pair of matched socks. Our shoes had holes in them. Our pants had holes in them. We only had one set of clothes. I remember my brothers and I going into the bathroom and using the bathtub to wash our only set of clothes and we were bare-assed naked when we were doing that because we didnt have anything to wear. Jack Langan would go on drinking sprees and disappear. He would lock the kitchen cabinets so the boys couldnt get to the food. He used a bullwhip to keep the boys in line. He would get jobs and then lose them, moving the family on to the next town. One summer the family lived on an Indian reservation in a teepee, subsisting on government-surplus peanut butter and cornmeal. For a time, they lived in Virginia City, Nevada. There was only one law officer in town, and when the Hells Angels came to town, he would crouch down in the back of his office, Mark Langan remembers. There was a bar there, Ill always remember. It was called the Bucket of Blood Saloon. When the boys were in grade school, the family moved to Bozeman, Montana. One of Chriss brothers spent time in a foster home. Another was sent to reform school. I dont think the school ever understood just how gifted Christopher was, his brother Jeff says. He sure as hell didnt play it up. This was Bozeman. It wasnt like it is today. It was a small hick town when we were growing up. We werent treated well there. Theyd just decided that my family was a bunch of deadbeats. To stick up for himself and his brothers, Chris started to lift weights. One day, when Chris was fourteen, Jack Langan got rough with the boys, as he sometimes did, and Chris knocked him out cold. Jack left, never to return. Upon graduation from high school, Chris was offered two full scholarships, one to Reed College in Oregon and the other to the University of Chicago. He chose Reed.