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Canada.Her work experiences have included manyyears as an educator and an actress.She is now using her pastexperiences and the many people she has met along the wayto turn her hand to writing.  \nLocal G-1B5c5  \nA  \n# Dedication\n\n“For Mrs.Bertelson,1947”  \nHA P PI LY EV ER AFTER  \nCopyright ◎ Colleen Elson(2018)  \nThe right of Colleen Elson to be identified as author of this workhas been asserted by her in accordance with section 77 and 78 ofthe Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may bereproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted in anyform or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or otherwise,without the prior permission of thepublishers.  \nAny person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to thispublication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claimsfor damages.  \nA CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the BritishLibrary.  \nISBN 9781786291172(Paperback)ISBN 9781786291165(Hardback)ISBN 9781786291158(E-Book)  \nwww.austinmacauley.com  \nFirst Published (2018)  \nAustin Macauley Publishers LtdTM25 Canada SquareCanary WharfLondonE145LQ  \nNow,let me get this straight!As I understand it,you fivepeople are some sort of a committee.A panel I think,thelawyer said,and I'm supposed to tell you all about myselfand what happened,so you can decide what comes next.As you probably know,there have already been so manyquestions thrown at me about this court case.I hope this isthe last time I'll have to explain it all.I'm getting prettytired of this nonsense,so let's get started.  \nThe lawyer said that it's important that you knoweverything there is to know about me,so you can make theright decisions,so I'm going to start way back.Yes,waaaaaay back to when I was a very little girl;a pretty littlegirl I might add!  \nThe first mother I remember was a woman they latertold me was my birth mother.I lived with her until I wasabout four or five.It was just the two of us together in ahouse somewhere up north.The house was just a little wayout of the town.There were no close neighbours.We didn'thave a car,but we didn't need one.We never left the houseexcept to go to the bank in town or to the store to buygroceries.My mother didn't work and she had no friendsthat I can remember.It was always just the two of us.  \nOur house wasn't a shack or anything like that.She hadher room and I had mine.We had nice furniture and therewas always enough food.I had pretty clothes.We hadelectricity and heat.We also had a lovely,big fireplace andmy best memory is of roasting marshmallows theresometimes.My mother would carry in wood from the pile  \nat the side of the house and get a lovely fire going in thebig brick fireplace.Then she would put a plumpmarshmallow on the end of a long stick so I wouldn't burnmy hand while I held it over the fire.She would put herhand over mine and show me how to turn the stick slowlyso the marshmallow would brown a little without burningShe must have loved me,at least a bit,to do that,but therewere lots of other times when she scared me.To put itbluntly,she was nuts!I really don't know what was thematter with her.  \nAs I remember,she was quite beautiful;her long hairwas brown,almost black,with a little curl at the ends andher eyes were brown too.Big and brown,with dark lashesthat were thick and that curled up and out.The colour ofher skin was almost bronze.It was smooth;so smooth that,when I dared,I would stroke it with my fingers.When shewas calm or when she was asleep,I would like to stand stilland look at her.If she had stayed like that all the time,beautiful and calm,my life would have been happy;but shedidn't and it wasn't!I don't know,to this day,why she wassuch an unhappy person,or what made her that way.  \nI guess she liked her own way,and if s","cbCaibY1WQl5a704","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibY1WQl5a704","pdf",3148077,68,"English","# Dedication\n## Courtroom framing and 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