And No One Stopped Them | Part 8

Happy Families and Nice Mummies Were for Other People

How I ached to be one of those children

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Kathleen and Laurie lived down the alley. Their dad never acted like my doctor when I saw him. He only acted like my friends’ nice, quiet Daddy who wore thick, dark-rimmed glasses and sometimes smoked a pipe when he sat in a big…