For a four year old doing that, and mopping and scrubbing the floors and polishing the floors with a machine. You know at four years you’re not supposed be doing that.
Tag: Stairways
I always remember the darkness and the fear that I went through under those stairs. And here the workers did not care if somebody was sick
So I had to spend my time in the chapel because the nun said that I deserved the wickedness that I had in my life and that’s how I’m paying for it and that I had to spend it in the chapel. And if they couldn’t put me in the chapel, I was put in the stairwell.
Mr. Cole caught me. He just grabbed me, lifted me up and carried me to the dormitory even though I was bawling and kicking my feet.
I’d wait for all the footsteps that go upstairs. It was time for bedtime. As soon as I hear the end, I just run to that door in the playroom, and I just run.
They dragged me out of the car, from the car. And well, you see the big long stairs. You know, they were dragging me up the long stairs. One of them was dragging me up the stairs and I said “I want to go home, I don’t want to come here.”