Growing up

I was born in Victoria. My Dad and my mother took 10 years before I was born. When I was 3 years old my Dad got me a rabbit. Then one morning I got up and my mother and Dad were still sleeping. I went outside and I looked on the ground. I saw a grey thing. It looked like a mouse. So I went in to wake up my Dad. He got up and went out side to the grey thing. He picked up this grey thing and opened the cage. My Dad put the grey thing inside the cage. I was looking at the rabbit and then the rabbit ate the grey thing. I screamed out. My Dad took me inside the house and he got the axe and chopped off the rabbit's head but I did not see this happpen.

Then 3 years later my Dad had left and my brother was born. This is the time when my mother became lazy. She would not wash a thing. Then food was a problem. We did not eat as well as before and my brother would eat bits of the bath room wall. On Sundays we went to my grand mother's house. She would feed us. My grand mother's cooking was very good and when it was time to go home me and my brother did not want to go. My brother would get very upset. When we got home, my brother did not play in the back yard. It was a tip. One day my brother was on top of the shed and fell through the roof of the shed he did not get hurt.

Today the shed is gone and the house is not a tip and I can cook and wash the dishes.


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