Journal – June 26, 1981 – 9:30 p.m. Dad. Accident. Broken back. XXX June 26, 1981 – 9:00 p.m. I was in my apartment. Pillows stacked behind my back, I was working on a crossword puzzle in bed. It was a beautiful June evening. All of a sudden, I heard the sirens of an ambulance. …
That Friday night, we all waited in the waiting room. Mom, me and my 4 sisters and brother. After what seemed like forever, I remember the doctor came out and told us that Dads back was broken and he said Dad would be paralyzed from the waist down. They were flying him to St. Michael´s …
We had spent the next month taking turns visiting Dad at St. Mike´s. My brother, my boyfriend at the time and I spent the weekend of the 24th in Toronto visiting him. He was in great spirits and we left to come back home to Parry Sound happy that he was doing so well. But …
I guess the reason I chose to start the beginning of my story with an ending of another´s is because it´s a crucial point in my life. It was like my ending too. The end of a life that I just took for granted. I mean, I was happy. I was living with my boyfriend, …
Mom lived in a small little town in Northern Ontario. She was the youngest child of three. She had flaming red hair (which I inherited) and was a tomboy when she was little. As she matured she became very independent. She wanted to be a professional dancer. I didn´t even know that until 2 years …
There was an announcement in high school that there was going to be a beauty pageant. My friend and I decided that we were going to enter. Why not? So we did, and I decided, naturally, that my talent portion would be to sing. My friend decided to sing to, so we got together as …
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Things were going well in my new place, in my new city, in my new job. I had been in Brampton for about 3 months when my brother and his friend and my sisters boyfriend were heading out to a bar for a night out and asked if I wanted to join them. Why not? …
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I was very excited to be in Southern Ontario. I had purchased a book in Kirkland Lake a few months before we left – just a spiral notebook, the kind you´d buy for school. I had written my plan out in this book – same as the last time – 5 years ago , full …
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