I Should Have Killed You! E-Book

Debbie Lacy

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

A young girl caught in despair had to conclude her life as a child to obtain her mother’s role in raising her younger brothers and sisters. Penny was just 13-years of age and the oldest of nine children. The large deprived family resided in a small 4-room house in Abbeville Alabama. She was bind with the responsibilities and authority in managing the home while her mother labored outside the residence as a housemaid and due to her father’s affliction hindered him in seeking any kind of employment and became extremely furious. Discontentment and grief consumed him when he began to lash out towards the sweet, loving, innocence of his helpmeet fused in matrimony for 13-years. His brutal temper tantrums and severe outburst against their mother angered the children but the one who had the most bitterness and vigor was Penny when she often declared, “I Should Have Killed You!”

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Debbie Lacy

I Should Have Killed You!

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So Young and Deprived

 It was a very hot and tedious day, as Penny worked slaving in the heat washing her brothers and sisters clothes in the old scrub tub.  How she wished her mother could afford a washer machine like her friend's parents had but they were deprived of having such modern conveniences for they were very pauper.  They lived on the south side of Abbeville, Alabama in a small 4-room house.  The only good thing about where they lived was that they had a large shaded front yard to play in. 

 Her dad left them shortly after losing his job as a custodian at Auburn University because of his stroke that affected mobility in his left arm and left leg hindering him in performing his job responsibilities.  He tried many times to find work but was unsuccessful.  Her mother Lisa was limited in her education and had no skills; all she could do was wash and clean houses for white folks, as she made very little money to support a family of nine children.  Her mother always said that her children were going to work hard in school, attend college to get a good education and she swore she would see to that becoming a reality.

 Penny would lay in bed at night with much angst listening to the horrible fights her mom and dad had frightening her younger brothers and sisters.  They would weep at the sounds of things breaking from the constant thrashing towards their mother.  She hated the way he would slap, kick and throw things leaving her so badly battered due to his unhappiness.  She despised him for treating her that way and wondered why she tolerated such cruelty from him all those years.