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I used to wake up at 530 am Monday-Friday to drive my niece to work. In a Covid crisis this was preferable to her taking transit. Anyways I stop off for tea every morning and am greeted by a gro...
I’m at the grocery store in Snippets
buying butter cause it’s on sale but a limit of two so I make two trips. On my third trip I go to get a shopping cart so I can pick up a few more things but there aren’t any clean buggies. I’m to...
Christmas Party in Snippets
Every year at whatever restaurant I’ve worked we’ve had a staff party. One year after the party was done and everyone’s gone home I lock up. I need to open at 4 on Sunday. I get there and start p...
Same friend. Working at a restaurant. He doesn’t drink often. When he does things happen. Cooking pasta. Obviously way past drunk or really hungover. I’m not sure cause I’ve never touched alcohol...
That’s the last one in Snippets
I was a designated driver for a friend one winters night. On the way home he yelled at me to stop the car. He got out and picked up a dead cat from the road and put it in his trunk. We continued ...
David's death in Snippets
I’m not sure of the exact date around 1972-1973. I actually forgot this happened. Being a runaway, I made friends with lots of people working at convenience stores. Basically when I remember the ...
Mrs. Godderiss in Snippets
My grade three teacher was probably the best teacher of my short school life. It was a difficult year. Lots of foster homes and lots of time running away. Third grade was when my abduction happen...
Curds and whey in Snippets
In grade one, my teacher Miss Sperzel read little miss tuffet. And had us try curds and whey. I remember going eww and not liking either.
Instant Family in Snippets
Thirteen years ago, my wife’s sister had some drama in her life and it required me to go up to Alberta and move them down her with us. The kids were in foster care because of a sexual assault by ...
Struggling to breathe in Snippets
I have various memories of being choked. Graham used to choke me on a daily basis. Numerous times every day. Being chained to the bed I was unable to fight him. He would come in the room and get ...
My beginning as a dress up girl in Snippets
So in 1976 after being in over 38 foster homes, detention centers snd children's shelters in five years after my first foster mom died I was moved to an institution for the for emotionally distur...
Girl continued in Snippets
I was in the intake cottage when this happened as the hey were still evaluating me as to where I was going to be placed when this incident took place him and I spent the night locked in my room w...
Clothing vouchers and shopping in Snippets
I didn't have many clothes when I left the institution. And they were all skirts and dresses. When I arrived at the group home the house mother said to my social worker that I was going to need n...
Group home in Snippets
My social worker(Mrs.Thermostat) showed up one day without any notice (to me at least) and picked me up from the institution. I was in the secure unit and my social worker arrived and signed me o...
I have so much bad history from men that I would like to forget. There are not a lot of men that I trust. I read stories and hear awful things that men do. I've been on the receiving end far too ...
injustices in Snippets
I find that I get very upset at injustices done to innocents. I am quite reactionary to violence done to women and children by men. It makes me feel bad about being one and I already have issues ...
Athabaska??? in Snippets
My grade five homeroom teacher was a jerk he called me a chink in front of the whole class. When we were doing spelling he marked me wrong for spelling Athabasca. He said it was spelled with a k...
I never really listened to what passes for music today. I grew up on classical music. I used to love listening to risky korsakove or Frederic Chopin. Antonin Dvorak. That was music. I went to th...
My saddest day in Snippets
My dad died on September 1, 1983. This is the dad from my first foster family. The place I called home. I have fond memories of eating crumpets. Cups of tea and toast cheese and celery with Brans...
Men I hate em I hate being one. in Snippets
I have had more bad experiences with men than good ones. I don't trust men. I hear and read stories of men doing awful things and having been on the receiving end way too many times I don't even ...
5th anniversary in Snippets
For our 5th anniversary we spent the night before at a bed and breakfast. The next day I took her to the mountain where we were married. There was a gathering of friends and her sister nd kids. I...
I got into his car. I don't know why. I was only six blocks from darcys house. I should have walked. But graham didn't stop to let me out at Darcy's. He kept going he made a lot of turns and I co...
Thanksgiving 1971 in Snippets
I was a runaway. I ran away lots so even though I was missing nobody was really looking for me. I went to see a friend who worked at a convenience store. Darcy wasn't there so I made the walk to ...
Big Dwayne. in Snippets
Big Dwayne passed just over a year after little Dwayne. Cirrhosis of the liver. Big Dwayne had an alcohol addiction as do many of his friends. I went to his memorial. I first met big Dwayne at th...
little Dwayne in Snippets
dwayne passed a week before Christmas 2010. He and two roommates died in a house fire caused by faulty string of Christmas lights. dwayne was a gentle soul who struggled with addictions. he was a...
