
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune ... to lose both seems like carelessness.
BIBLE HEBREW: "You shall not abuse any widow or orphan. If you do abuse them, when they cry out to me, I will surely heed their cry ..."
I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children’s homes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.
Mother came to us destitute. She brings a child into the world, takes one look at him and promptly dies. Without leaving so much as a forwarding name and address.