My PlaceIn 1982 Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmother's birthplace. What started out as a tentative search for information about her family, turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. My Placebeings with the experiences of Sally's own life, growing up in suburban Perth in the fifties and sixties. Through the memories and images of her childhood and adolescence, vague hints and echoes begin to emerge, hidden knowledge is uncovered, and a fascinating story unfolds. It is a deeply moving account of a search for truth, into which a whole family is gradually drawn, finally freeing the tongues of the author's mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories. |
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Page 419
... Gladdie . Before I had Gladdie , I was carryin ' another child , but I wasn't allowed to keep it . That was the way of it , then . They took our children one way or another . I never told anyone that I was carryin ' Gladdie . Now how ...
... Gladdie . Before I had Gladdie , I was carryin ' another child , but I wasn't allowed to keep it . That was the way of it , then . They took our children one way or another . I never told anyone that I was carryin ' Gladdie . Now how ...
Page 425
... Gladdie was carrying Billy , she got polio . There wasn't one family in Mulberry Farm that wasn't touched with polio . It was a terrible thing . I was worried you kids might get sick too . That's when I moved in . Gladdie couldn't walk ...
... Gladdie was carrying Billy , she got polio . There wasn't one family in Mulberry Farm that wasn't touched with polio . It was a terrible thing . I was worried you kids might get sick too . That's when I moved in . Gladdie couldn't walk ...
Page 428
... Gladdie wrote to the Drake - Brockmans in Sydney to see if they could give us a loan . They said they was broke too ... Gladdie and me . Things that you only got ' cause we was black . I tried to stay out the way after Bill died ...
... Gladdie wrote to the Drake - Brockmans in Sydney to see if they could give us a loan . They said they was broke too ... Gladdie and me . Things that you only got ' cause we was black . I tried to stay out the way after Bill died ...
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