ANNMARIE - LEE
In the fifties and sixties children were strongly disciplined but for me, my father spoiled me. I was a spoiled girl. My brother even said, "Pappy had you like a little queen."
My father used to dress me different from the other children in school. At the school I used to attend, I wore a uniform which was a blue skirt and white shirt with white socks and running shoes. Pappy disregarded the rules of the school and would dress me like a little doll with silk frilly cancan dresses and pointed toed shoes with little heels. My teachers would not let me play sports because of the way I dressed. Any time I would try to play I would slip and fall.
I also did not have a book bag like everyone else, instead I had a briefcase. I was very proud because I was different from the other kids. Pappy used to comb my hair in four braids, one sticking out to the front of my head, two on each side and one to the back, and they all had different coloured ribbons on them. One day my friend Carol and I had quarrel and she said, "Look at you all dressed up and your hair style is like east, west, north and south." Everyone started teasing me from that day.
Thank God for this lady named Miss Jean who always rescued me from those bad hair days. She would stop me on my way to school and comb over my hair. Pappy heard about the teasing and thanked Miss Jean and sometimes he asked my cousins to comb over my hair.
Pappy made all those tasty meals made with curry. He made curry bread, curry dumplings, curry rice, curry meat and everything he made was curry.