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Loretta took me to get my learners licence. I passed with flying colours. I am good at retention of details. so getting my learners licence was easy. But it wasn't till way after I ran away from ...

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I got a phone call from the jolly green giant when I was at home. We were having supper and the phone rang my mum answered it and gave me the phone . I said hello and he said he was the jolly gre...

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I went to the same school for the five years that I went. The kindergarten was next door to the school. I had one kid was in my class since kindergarten who everyday called me chink and called me...

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I went to Doreen's house after running away from the group home. It was actually a slow long walk cause I had to enter the city cross downtown and get to the northeast suburb where she lived. I ...

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Bobby and I spent a lot of Saturdays collecting pop bottles and beer bottles. We would go door to door asking for them. We always got lots. We had a route and we would usually hit pllaces on a ...

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Bobby and I used to go to the supermarket on Saturdays and offer to put peoples groceries in their car and take the carts back to the store for tips. Some time we would make three or four dollars...

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I really wish there was a kids help phone when I was a kid. There were so many wrong things happening I am sure they would have done something. There were lots of adults around but they were all ...

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At my first home sundays were roast beef dinner night. Roast beef, roasted potatoes with rosemary, broccoli, carrots and Yorkshire pudding. I have fond memories odf those nights. We had mint sau...

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I once had eight cats. Eenie, meenie, miney, moe, askit, guess, what, and coke I was looking for them one night calling their names and a girl outside said no that's not how it goes and said ...

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My first and second set of foster parents were limy English. Tea was the staple beverage in our house. I don't ever recall coffee being at either house. And tea was the loose leaves of tea not t...

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I met Hilary a year after I had been at the group home. Apparently he was my new social worker. I said to him that I thought Hilary was a girls name And he said he thought my name was a boys nam...

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Loretta was a housemother at the group home which was actually a farm just on the outskirts of the city that I was discharged to from the institution. I was still living as a girl and at that po...

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I learned how to cook when I spent my years living as a girl. It was probably the one thing I enjoyed about the whole experience. I was good at it and it was fun. But I never told anybody that be...

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When I was a runaway I had a friend who worked at a convenience store. Actually I had a lot of those through the years. One time he was running short on pennies and asked me if I could run aroun...

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Every time I went to a new home I assumed their last name. so I would have to go to the office at school and tell them. at one point I went through four home in a month. and everytime I had a new...

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I came back from school escorted under the ever watchful eye of my jailer and was taken to my room. Standing there holding girls clothing in their hands were staff. They started the conversation ...

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I had a friend who lived in an apartment one block from our house. Harry was a good man. I used to visit him a lot. Across the hall from him was the apartment manager, Peter. Peter didn't like ...

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I had a lot of friends. None of them were my age except for Bobby. They were all adults. I knew everybody on our block. and beyond. I would disappear from after breakfast and if I wasn't hanging ...

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So after the grownup service that I snuck into and listened to I asked my pastor if you could love people and not like what they did. It was a growth point for me. God loves us all but not all ...

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I grew up with 120 other kids in this institution. As of three years ago, when the person keeping track of everybody died of a burst ulcer on his kitchen floor there were 19 of us alive. I felt ...

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I only spent a couple bouts in ydc. One was open custody and the other was secure. I was brought there on orders from my social worker who thought locking me up would stop me from running away. O...

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Home three lasted about a week. My social worker came and picked me up from school and took me to shelter. I know that things are not always as bad as they seem but when you're six years old peo...

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Home 14 I have lots of foster brothers and sisters. None of which I ever would want to see ever again. Except from my first home. I had three "sisters" at this home. They were all mean. Ginn...

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I started running away from foster homes because I was tired of being hit and abused. I really only ever wanted to go back to the only home I ever knew . The first one. I wanted to be with my da...

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My next door neighbours was my second home. I found it awkward because the man I considered Dad was now my next door neighbor and I wasn't allowed to visit him. It was hard for me. My foster brot...

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