Early Times
Memories are sometimes very sad. Memories are sometimes very helpful when you have to make choices. I have some memories that I like to keep hidden, but I would not give up even the very ones that hurt the most. I think my memories are the very substance that helped me to move from the backwoods of my first years to a moderately normal existence. My first memories give me a glimpse of a small child peering through the bushes of a yard when a stranger approached. We sometimes would go weeks or months without seeing anyone other than our family. Us children when young seldom went to the store. We never went to a church until we were old enough to go alone. When we got old enough to go to school, we would go there and back and then the only other people we saw was the school teacher and the other children at school. There was one old man who would come to our house about once a year. I can't remember his name, but I do remember that he had a long white beard and he always to