I had gotten a job working as a housekeeper for a lone-parent family of four.Barb the mother, Ceicly & Shelly The twin daughters and Joey the son.Barb...had come over last year on Vacation and had offered me the job, She even paid for my visa and flights. She seemed so sweet and timid.... I was soon to realise first impressions aren,t always right.My first week at Barb's dragged on. I woke at six turned on the water,made breakfast and cleaned the house.I was forbidden to enter Barb,s room or the. I was the unwanted child of a teenage mother, who had worked as a nurse at the local orphanage, which I now referred to as the town's "lost and found". Only she knew who my father was. When news spread throughout the community of her unplanned pregnancy she made a public declaration that she would raise me take responsibility for her actions. As was expected, two days after my birth she left me in an office with a letter. Granny, as she was affectionately known, was the senior doctor at the. No mention was made of the fact that at this point the Rebel forces outnumbered us almost two to one on this side of the river and that the General had probably mistakenly underestimated the Confederate sense of making a last stand to save their homeland from being split in two.Our unit was pulled over to the side of the road and dispersed in the trees taking time to find low ground and cover in case we were attacked. A long column of our artillery pulled back across the river in a big hurry. As the ceremony ended and all stood to applaud, as the bride and groom made their way down the aisle, as the bridesmaids and grooms followed in track, As the little girl with the Flowers and the little boy with the pillow for the ring finally escaped do the two wooden doors in the back of the church, the quivering deep in you , the effects of which you are now feeling from your toes to your breasts, stopped. Slowly and methodically each row was dismissed. the ushers in charge would stand at the.