Cat
“Andrews 4 Their eyes were full of many new questions now, questions I was still answering myself. How could all that have happened to me and right under my mother's eyes, too? How is a garden prepared and cultivated to grow black flowers full of thorns and poison? That was where I had found myself planted.
They waited patiently for me to sit and gather my thoughts. I took a small breath and began. "When I was very little nothing seemed as important to my mother as my being able to care for myse...lf. I was only three when she insisted I dress myself. She taught me how to run my own bath and I was given the responsibility to undress, clean and dress myself without her help. She would put out the clothes I was to wear, but she didn't stand around to help me put them on. If I didn't put something on correctly, she sent me back to my room to do it right. "Personal hygiene, being in charge of my own body, was the most important thing to her. It was more important than anything else, school, manners, anything.MoreLess
They waited patiently for me to sit and gather my thoughts. I took a small breath and began. "When I was very little nothing seemed as important to my mother as my being able to care for myse...lf. I was only three when she insisted I dress myself. She taught me how to run my own bath and I was given the responsibility to undress, clean and dress myself without her help. She would put out the clothes I was to wear, but she didn't stand around to help me put them on. If I didn't put something on correctly, she sent me back to my room to do it right. "Personal hygiene, being in charge of my own body, was the most important thing to her. It was more important than anything else, school, manners, anything.MoreLess
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