OLD HISTORY IN MY LIFE

WHEN I WAS 8 OR 9 YEARS OLD I WAS PLACED INA FOSTER HOME WITH A VERY OLD LADY SHE HAD 3 GRANDSONS WHO STAYED OVER NIGHT A LOT.

I WENT TO COURT AND A JUDGE SAID WE WERE NEGLECTED BECAUSE MY AUNT AND UNCLE SAID WE WERE.

THIS WAS DUE TO MY MOM GOING ON A TRUCK DRIVING TRIP WITH HER HUSBAND AT THAT TIME AND SHE LEFT US IN THE CARE OF HER COUSIN AND PAID HER MONEY TO FEED US AND BABYSIT. SHE NEVER CAME WE WERE ALONE FOR ABOUT A WEEK. AND WE ATE FRIED POTATOES MY BROTHER COOKED FOR US EVERY MEAL IT WAS ALL WE HAD.

LATER WE DISCOVERED IT WAS A PLAN MY AUNT AND UNCLE CREATED SO THEY COULD GET CONTROL OVER THE HOUSE MY GRANDFATHER LEFT TO ME AND MY OLDER BROTHER AND SISTER. WHICH THEY KEPT FOR A FEW YEARS AND WHEN MY MOTHER SUED TO HAVE IT RETURNED TO US MY UNCLE AND AUNT WERE SUPPOSED TO GIVE US THE RENT MONEY THEY COLLECTED. THEY GAVE US $7.00 AND CLAIMED THAT WAS ALL THERE WAS. I HAD LOVING RELATIVES AND VERY GREEDY ONES AT THAT. ANYHOW TH ATS HOW WE ENDED UP IN FOSTER CARE

I REMEMBER THAT ONCE MY FOSTER MOTHER BAKED A GOAT'S HEAD IN THE OVEN AND ATE THE BRAINS. IT WAS SO ICKY TO ME BUT SHE THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT.

ALSO I SLEPT ON A PAD ON THE FLOOR WHICH I SOMETIMES HAD TO SHARE WITH PETER ONE OF THE GRAND BOYS. PETER WAS A VERY SWEET AND KIND PERSON . THE OLDER BROTHER WAS NAMED EDDIE AND HE HAD A WEIRD CONDITION WHERE HE WOULDS GO CRAZY LIKE AND YELL AND THREATEN TO KILL "HIM" I NEVER KNEW WHO THE HIM WAS , BUT I WAS VERY FRIGHTENED OF HIM.

SOMETIME AFTER MY ARRIVAL THERE, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHEN OR HOW LONG I LIVED THERE BUT IT SEEMED INTERMINABLE, I HAD ONE LITTLE DRAWER INA DRESSER IN A HALL WHICH WAS WHERE I DRESSED AND UNDRESSED . AND IN IT I KEPT ALL MY WORLDLY GOODS 3 DRESSES 3 PAIRS OF PANTIES ONE SLIP AND 3 PAIRS OF SOCKS AND SOME WRITING PAPER AND ENVELOPES TO WRITE MY MOTHER.

I WROTE MY MOTHER A LETTER TELLING HER HOW DEPRIVED I WAS AND HOW UNHAPPY I WAS AND KEPT IT IN MY DRAWER .

WELL , THE OLD LADY'S DAUGHTER WHO WAS MISSING A LEG AND WALKED WITH CRUTCHES, CAME TO LIVE THERE WITH HER BOYFRIEND AS WELL AND SHE WENT THROUGH MY DRAWER AND READ THE LETTER AND CALLED THE SOCIAL WORKER AND DEMANDED I BE REMOVED, IN THE MEANTIME I HAD ASKED TO MOVE AS WELL , SO I MOVED TO MY UNCLE AND AUNTS HOUSE THEY WEREN'T REALLY UNCLE AND AUNT BUT DISTANT RELATIVES. THEY WERE INCREDIBLY KIND AND TOLERANT OF MY WAYS.

ABOUT ONE MONTH AFTER I WAS MOVED, EDDIE, THE OLDER BROTHER, KILLED HIS FATHER DUE TO THE FATHER ASSAULTING HIS MOTHER.

HE WAS SENT AWAY TO PRISON OR SOMEWHERE FOR A LONG TIME.
I WAS SO HAPPY I WAS NOT THERE WHEN THAT HAPPENED.
PETER BE CAME A PRIEST AFTER HE GREW UP AND CONTINUED TO BE A KIND AND LOVING PERSON.

I TELL YOU MY LIFE HAD MANY TRAUMATIC EPISODES IN IT AS A CHILD BUT AFTER I MOVED IN WITH THESE KIND FOLKS IT TURNED INTO A MORE RELAXED AND HAPPY TIME. I LIVED IN MY IMAGINATION, I SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN THE LIBRARY AND READ ALL THE KID MYSTERY BOOKS , NANCY DREW AND JUDY BOLTON, AND THE BROTHERS HARDY BOYS AND EVERY BOOK I COULD GE T MY HANDS ON.

LATER WHEN I STARTED TO RUN AROUND WITH MY BEST FRIEND HER PARENTS HAD A HOME COLLECTION OF BOOKS AND THEY ALLOWED ME TO READ AS MANY AS I LIKED. I READ TROPIC OF CANCER WHICH WAS A FORBIDDEN BOOK AT THE TIME. THEY LET ME ... ENCOURAGED MY EDUCATION AND PRAISED MY GOOD GRADES I FELT VERY HAPPY TO HAVE THEM AS ALTERNATE PARENTS. I WATCHED HOW THE CORRECTED D THEIR DAUGHTER AND MADE THOSE RULES FOR MYSELF.

THE DAD WAS JEWISH AND WENT TO CATHOLIC CHURCH BECAUSE HIS MOM HAD BEEN CATHOLIC.

ONCE I TUTORED THEIR DAUGHTER MY FRIEND BECAUSE SHE WAS FAILING IN SCHOOL AND SHE DID VERY WELL. THEY PAID ME 50 CENTS.
THAT WAS A LOT OF MONEY THEN ABOUT LIKE 10.00 NOW

5 LITTLE LULU COMICS HAHHA.

I READ A LOT OF COMICS I LOVED CAPTAIN MARVEL AND CAPTAIN MARVEL JR. AND MARY MARVEL. WHOSE AUTHOR WAS LATER PUT OUT OF BUSINESS BECAUSE THE SUPERMAN GUY WAS JEALOUS AND CLAIMED HE STOLE THE SUPERMAN IDEA. WELL, THEY DIDN'T THE MARVEL GUYS ALWAYS HAD TO SAY SHAZAM!! TO GET POWERS. IF SOMEONE COVERED THEIR MOUTHS THEY COULD NOT SAY SHAZAM AND COULD BE INJURED EASILY.
I READ ALL THE CLASSICS ALI CE INWONDERLAND AND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS MANY TIMES, AND MANY MANY MORE THE LIBRARY RAN OUT OF BOOKS I WANTED TO READ.
MY BROTHER AND SISTER TAUGHT ME TOREAD AND DO MATH WHEN I WAS SMALL , SO WHEN I FINALLY SATRTED SCHOOL AFTER BEIGN KEPT OUT A LOT I WAS PLACED IN 3RD GRADE AND I KNEW HOW TO READ AND WRITE AND CYPHER WELL. I WAS 8 THEN.
MY BROTHER TAUGHT ME FRACTIONS HE WOULD ASK ME IF I WANTED AN 8TH OR A 4TH OF A CANDY BAR ID SAY 8TH BECAUSE 8 IS BIIGGER AND HED LAUGH ANBD TELL EM WHAT THAT MEANT AND THAT IS HOW I LEARNED FRACTIONS. AT AGE 4 AND 5 OR SO ALSO THEY BROUGHT BOOKS HOME FROM SCHOOL WHICH WE READ TOGETHER AND I LATER BY MYSELF.

OK ENOUGH OF THAT I HAVE LOTS MORE STORIES LIKE WHEN I WROTE AND ACTED PLAYS FOR ALL THE NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS AND ALL THAT.
WELL I HAVE A LOT OF HISTORY I WILL BE 73 YEARS OLD ON SATURDAY.