What happened to the happy little girl?

When I was four years old, I remember moving to our first house and it was a pretty big deal.  Before that, we'd lived in apartments and I had a few memories....  At the house, everything seemed to be going fairly well to my child's mind [and probably in my parents' view]....  Just before I turned seven years, my mom told me we'd be moving to another house so that I could live closer to the church school and attend there.  It seemed like quite an undertaking!  I felt my parents were doing a lot for me.

At the new house, my parents bought me a two-wheel bicycle and taught me to ride it.  The school was a mile away and I was able to ride the bike there in good weather.  My parents also bought me two, children's nature books, which I liked!  It seemed my parents really wanted me to be happy at the church school!

When I started attending the school, I brought one of my nature books with me which my parents had bought; and this book got damaged....  This incident was involved in the trauma that I felt I received from my teacher....

Notwithstanding the mild trauma, I remained enthusiastic about the church school because it was the path my parents had set me on and I trusted them--and they'd taught me to believe in God....  At home, I wasn't as happy--as I've explained several times before--because we could've used family counselling....

My appreciation of the denominational schools pretty much stayed with me until I went to college in England....  Then I was having more trouble with my eating disorder...and I mostly enjoyed a lot of travel opportunities....  At the end of my second year in England, my health and studies crashed....

It was soon after that I went to the small, residential school in northern Ontario and I met my husband-to-be there....  Have written about this experience separately earlier....  We got married a number of years later.  The marriage didn't work out even though we loved each other at the time.  We had a child and I raised him mostly alone; and he's a a responsible adult now....

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