PERSONAL STORY
The Ups and Downs Of My Crazy Life
In answer to the August 2022 prompt of The Memoirist: my life in sixty-six six-word chapters
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4 min readAug 23, 2022
Chapter 1: Born In South Africa
Firstborn. February 1967. Mother almost twenty.
Chapter 2: First Steps At Nine Months
Friend took toy. Stood up. Walked.
Chapter 3: A Sibling
Brother born when I was two.
Chapter 4: Starting School
Five years old. Loved the books.
Chapter 5: Loving Grandparents
Frequent sleepovers and church on Sundays.
Chapter 6: Friend Of The Family
Nine. Bedtime reading. Touching. Sexual abuse.
Chapter 7: Long Distance Holidays, Twice
Driving three days. Swakopmund. Family time.
Chapter 8: Almost Eleven
Moved to Windhoek, South West Africa.
