Since I can't figure out how to publish my memoir, I'll post snippets here I guess.
I was taking a bath, and remembered a foster mother, Barb, who always called me selfish, for taking so many baths. She'd bitch about it to others, saying what a selfish person Sharon is. Her daughter Lisa, snubbed me as well. Eventually she told me it was because I smoked. There was another daughter who's name was Karen I think, who tried to be kind to me. She set me up on a date with a nice man who took me to, I think, Dairy Queen, and then a drive in movie, then, playing cards with a few other people. This was in Vankleek Hill, Ontario. I didn't find the man attractive, but in school, a soccer playing girl called Cathy, asked me for permission to go out with him. Of course I gave her my blessing.
Years later, I was stripping at some seedy club, and who do I end up table dancing for? The foster father of that family. He was nervous because he recognized me I guess, and he gave me a generous tip. If I had been good at verbal communication at the time, I might have assured him that I didn't blame him for being at a strip club, with a bitch for a wife, a bitch for a daughter, at least, Lisa was one anyway. Karen wasn't.
At the foster home, there was an industrial pig factory. I saw a sow in a cage where she could probably not move at all, and many piglets were suckling on her teats. One of them was sickly, and I took it into the house, and that foster father blew up at me over it. He yelled.
Those foster parents told me I'd get to ride their stallion if I came to live with them. I had been in Reflection, a place for unwanted kids, and those foster parents came to see me there, and made living with them sound exciting. I had a visit with them at their farm, and put Crisco oil on my skin at their pool, to try to tan. Well it fried me like a French fry. I was in terrible pain afterward as my skin was crisp.
After I moved in, there was no fulfillment of the promise that I would ride the stallion, and when I asked about it, I was told to ride the donkey, Aly, so I forced my will on Aly, who tried to rub me off on a fence. I made him walk me through the streets, down into the little village. One time, I mounted him, and the stallion kicked me off Aly. He didn't hurt me. He just landed his hind hoof squarely on my chest, and shoved me off. I landed easily, and sat on my butt watching their behinds as they triumphantly walked away. Aly developed a limp, and Lisa blamed me. But she didn't blame her mother, for setting my expectations so high, to ride the stallion, only to tell me that I can ride Aly, once I'd moved in with her.
The way I got into that foster home, started with my boyfriend Mike. His gorgeous young and single foster mother, Donna, was the daughter of said foster parents. She told her parents about me, and they took me in, but the atmosphere was crackling with snobbery.