“Somebody Else’s Kids” -A true story, Hayden, L. Torey, Part 4
Sphere Books Limited – 1984
It is most painful to read accounts of real
childhood experiences because one finds
so many things similar to what you lived
through yourself - 7-year-old twins Libby
and Lori with a brain injury caused by an
angry parent; Libby explains before they
Were saved from their mad birth parents,
they were punished every day, even now
living with her adopted father she forgets
she is safe & wakes up from nightmares
lying awake the rest of the night with head-
aches and stomach pain fearing for her life
Allergies used to keep me awake also - I
know the feeling of not being able to sleep
while sinking in nightmares, trying to cross
a street, a wind holding me back while cars
come racing at me, getting up the next day
nauseous with terrible headaches - I never
Knew people did not live life like that, just
thought everyone felt the same and coped
so much better than me, the Duchess my
twin sis couldn’t master her thoughts to
learn at school, her life was worse than
mine, life held such terrors she decided
Never to have kids, never expose them
to the senseless tragedy and desperate
unhappiness she experienced as a child
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