Question:
HOw did you get from New York to Montana?
+ I didn’t. + I was born in Great Falls, Montana. + Columbus Hospital, Sept 11th. + I lived in Great Falls until 1969. Then I lived in Illinois, Montana, South East Asia (several bases), Illinois, Germany, Spain, Turkey, Ohio, N Carolina, Saudi for a few months, Singapore and Ohio. + Did I mention New York? + Nope, I didn’t. + St Thomas was horrible. It sucked. Why? Because there were no parents that would hold you, love you, read to you, play with you. It was dark and dingy because it was an OLD building built 120 years ago with small windows, small rooms. It was built before unions changed the face of the New York Garment district. Nuns do not act like parents. Nuns pray a lot. Kids play. Of course there would be some disagreement as to what would win out. St Thomas Orphanage taught kids to work hard, pray, be quiet, study, be quiet, pray, and accept things as they were. They had no television, play stations, computers. There weren’t any play stations nor computers in the early 1950’s when you would have been attending there.
+ That is right, dave. + This is why it is unfair and stupid to talk bad about orphanages 50 years ago.
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