![]() Conversations included things like, "How was your day?" and "What did you do today?" There was a dinner with a set dinnertime, and a standard bedtime with lights out. "In their house, schedules ran like they did on the TV shows that I watched and had longed to be a part of, like Happy Days and The Brady Bunch. ![]() Of the normalcy and routine of her new home environment, Shenandoah noted: As a young teenager Shenandoah spent a summer with her mother's older sister and a cousin close to her age in their California home. Not only did I want to take young Shenandoah under my wing and into my own home as I read about what she experienced as a child, but I also felt compelled to show some extra compassion and affection to my own children while reading her memoir.Įventually Shenandoah got her wish of living with a family who offered her the safety, security, and calmness she was not able to experience with her own family. I daydreamed about becoming an orphan, and being taken away to live with a real family." (p. When they were home, I spent most of my time locked in my room, hiding, talking to imaginary and stuffed friends. "Already I was wishing myself out of being raised by my parents. ![]() Of her early childhood memories Shenandoah Chefalo recounts, ![]() ![]() I recently finished reading a memoir sadly yet appropriately titled Garbage Bag Suitcase written by a woman who suffered a childhood of neglect and abuse because of her parent's drug addiction and alcoholism. ![]()
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