Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I went to a nun/psychiatrist who asked me to draw a picture of my family. I drew a picture where my dad had very long arms and all of the women had chopped-off arms. I was very sad, and Father Murray, the priest at St. Dominic School, understood and loved me for it.
#2 I had been through a war in kindergarten, and I was still fighting it in school. I didnât get close to female teachers, but I felt like they couldnât really see how hard I was struggling.
#3 When I was four years old, I fell down by the entrance to my classroom, and when I was seven, my father moved out of Aunt Bernieâs house because he was fed up with her husband, John Schulte.
#4 I had to repeat first grade with a mentally handicapped girl and a boy who was a future convict. I felt misunderstood, and was ashamed that my dad had asked the school to hold me back a year because of all weâd been through.