Mary Gauthier De-Romanticizes Romantic Love — npr.org

hide caption"Music and books, I think, were the two things I trusted the most as a child," Mary Gauthier says. "Music and books, I think, were the two things I trusted the most as a child," Mary Gauthier says. Mary Gauthier started gathering material for songs early in life. She ran away from home at 15 and entered her first stint in rehab. But it wasn't until she was in her mid-30s that she became a singer and songwriter. Once she got started, songs poured out that told the story of her life as a drunk and addict, a chef and restaurant owner, an androgynous lesbian, and an adoptee who spent the first year of her life in an orphanage.

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