by Donna Ford
Thank you once again for being you. I love you more than words can say.
Love, hugs and kisses – Clairy bumbo xxxxx
Dear Mum
I want to tell you how much I love you and how special you really are. You have done so well with everything and I am just so happy that you're not anything like your Mum, but I hope I'm like you in every way even though we look nothing like each other. I know that you sometimes get a little grumpy or a little stressed but that doesn't matter because there's no such thing as perfect. I just have one more thing to say to my special Mum – I don't know how you fit such a big heart in such a small body . . .
Love you lots, Mum!
Saoirse
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The Step Child
A True Story of a Broken Childhood
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Table of Contents
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PROLOGUE
Chapter One MY PAST, MY PRESENT, MY FUTURE
Chapter Two MUMMIES AND DADDY
Chapter Three ONE BIG, HAPPY FAMILY
Chapter Four WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
Chapter Five HOME
Chapter Six CHASTISEMENT
Chapter Seven SUCH A GOOD MAN
Chapter Eight AN INVITATION TO A PARTY . . .
Chapter Nine THE DARLING OF ALL
Chapter Ten 'HAPPY NORMAL CHILDREN'
Chapter Eleven NELLIE AND MADGE
Chapter Twelve ERRANDS
Chapter Thirteen SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN
Chapter Fourteen ANDREW AND KAREN
Chapter Fifteen RING, RING, RING
Chapter Sixteen UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, UNWANTED MEMORIES
Chapter Seventeen THE WOMAN OF THE HOUSE
Chapter Eighteen GETTING BY
Chapter Nineteen ONLY AFTER ONE THING . . .
Chapter Twenty MY WORLD
Chapter Twenty-one WORDS OF WISDOM
Chapter Twenty-two LOVE
Chapter Twenty-three CONTRASTS
Chapter Twenty-four MR AND MRS
Chapter Twenty-five OBLIGATIONS
Chapter Twenty-six WHAT DADDIES DO
Chapter Twenty-seven MY BOY, MY GIRLS
Chapter Twenty-eight OUT OF THE FRYING PAN . . .
Chapter Twenty-nine FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE
Chapter Thirty ESCAPE
Chapter Thirty-one A WORLD OUT THERE
Chapter Thirty-two BREDA
Chapter Thirty-three STRENGTH, BLAME AND FORGIVENESS
Chapter Thirty-four A BEGINNING FROM MANY ENDINGS
Chapter Thirty-five BREAKING THE SILENCE
Chapter Thirty-six THE WORLD I HAVE MADE
CONCLUSION: ME
EPILOGUE
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