Mister God, This is Anna

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Papas. Mister God, This is Anna

Mister God, This is Anna

Fynn

Papas

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction. Vernon Sproxton

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

When I Shall Die by Anna

Also by the Author

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A few minutes of ‘ooh’s’ and ‘aah’s’, then things began to get organized. Mum heaved herself upright, and with a passing shot to me to ‘get those wet clothes off the child’, flung open the kitchen door, yelling, ‘Stan, Carol, come here quick!’ Stan’s my younger brother by two years; Carol was one of the waifs or strays that came and went.

The kitchen and the scullery suddenly erupted – a bath appeared, kettles of water on gas-rings, towels, soap; the kitchen-range was filled with coal; and there was me trying to undo sundry hooks and eyes on Anna’s clothing. And suddenly there she was, sitting cross-legged on the table as raw as the day she was born. Stan said ‘Bastard!’ Carol said ‘Christ!’ Mum looked a bit grim. For a moment that little kitchen blazed with hatred for someone; that poor little body was bruised and sore. The four older people in the kitchen were ready to bash someone and for a time we were lost in our own anger. But Anna sat and grinned, a huge face-splitting grin. Like some beautiful sprite she sat there, and I believe for the very first time in her life she was entirely and completely happy.

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