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Beyond his barely disguised vulnerability and the way conflict—and the vicissitudes of life itself—exquisitely tortured him, Jerry Alan West (not Jerome, never Jerome; with someone's help, I was able to have it recently changed in Wikipedia) wanted, more than anything, to be loved and accepted, and, most crucially, to be understood.
Jerome Alan West was born May 28, 1938, in Chelyan, W.Va., the fifth of six children.