‘ When I was little my parents were highly addicted to drugs and one day when I was four, my sister Abbi was two, and our baby brother Jonathan was ...ust a year old, our parents were extremely high and they went after us. They smacked us around a few times then when Abbi was down, they tried to stake a sheet to her. They got the spikes in about an inch when I threw a shoe to distract them. Abbi got the stakes out and ran for it as I distracted them. They took a knife and stabbed me in the back. " Connor almost chuckled to find one of his father's handkerchiefs in his pocket, he wiped the tears off of her face. "I never thought you were shallow, Breeton, just too handsome to be interested in scruffy Al, I've never let anyone take care of me except the children when I had no choice, it's a terrible feeling being helpless and totally dependant on others." Connor wiggled an arched eyebrow "think I'm handsome do you, Al, we can work on that dependant part, ever hear of a wheelchair, we can. " It was hard to accept; shehad nothing to offer her daughter. Ashley didn't deserve this kind oflife. She should be playing with the other kids, going to school anddeveloping into a young lady."That's OK; I don't need anything as long as I have you." Liz startedcrying; her daughter was so mature and selfless. She held her arms outto her."Aw, come here," Ashley put her fork down and hugged her mother, "I loveyou, you know that right? I wish your daddy were around to see how bigof a girl. At least in respect to those areas north of the Rio Grande River and south of the Canadian border, conflict was not a major cause of the falling Indian population. The same is not true for the Central and South American regions which were scenes of bloody conflict between the Spanish and Portuguese seekers of gold and fortune and the followers of an ancient way of life that in many respects surpassed the European civilization in both design and complexity. Those areas are outside the scope of.