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1937
Mother
stood in her green cotton dress
and
checkered apron by the cooking
stove.
She looked at me and said,
"
I didn’t want you, you know."
I was 3
Father
sat in his worn bib overalls at the
round
table, complaining about the government.
He
said. " If she was a boy she could help
with
the chores."
I was 3
Alone,
naked, I faced loneliness, It
was
then that I adopted all the
creatures
in the world.
You were 23.
I was 3
LaVona
Sherarts
©
1997
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