Stephen, the son of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall who never knew his father: Kids were secondary to the parties'

"When he came home he'd want to have dinner with my mother, he'd say, 'Hey kids, how are you?' and then we're done, we're out of there."

"Kids were always on the periphery. They were secondary to the guys and girls getting together — the drinking, the smoking, the laughing, the parties," Stephen recalls.

"My mother thinks, 'Do I go to Africa with Bogie and Huston and Hepburn or do I go home and take care of the kid?' recounts Stephen.

"I don't blame my mother for doing what she did. But I'm not sure that I would have made the same choice."

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