Ya know, I gotta give it to Freda, she knew how to buy us off with little gifts… She made that dress and I think while we were in a hotel for 3 months…

I remember we celebrated my brother’s birthday, which was in Dec and she made a cake in that hotel room… My sister and I were down the hall in our own room and that short taste of freedom by not being micromanaged was a taste, I never let go of…

If you have been reading in order of the posts, you know that my 16th birthday showed me with short hair and this picture shows my hair up… but was I making memories.???

The stroke would set the tone for that christian Air Force household…

It scared Freda so bad, that while I was recovering, me thinking I had a severe case of flu my whole life, when the memory trigger happened that changed everything…

As Freda made my christmas gift that winter in Johnson off base housing on Japan… I was in and out of lucid capability…

I would stumble around the house, bang into walls, sleep excessively and somehow I did school work, skipped a grade and excelled??? My sister knows all this an it really bothered her, that I wasn’t permanently infirmed…

My mother has some ugly choices for color and she chose a bright red orange to make me a fake fur lined poncho with a hood… (I never forgot those walks down that hill in winter) and because of that memory, I have to admit the beating likely happened closer to winter than fall…

To this day, I do not remember school at Johnson, nor do I remember my best friend Robin Ackley… She reached out to me in 10 and I had no memory and she filled me in on a lot of things that happened during that time period, especially about my sister…

So we move from off base, to on base, we celebrate my birthday and the next thing I know…

We are on Okinawa…

Now how come I don’t remember squat??? Brain bleed… Stroke and one that I would over come without health care… If anyone found out what Don did at Freda’s behest, he would be court martialed and she would be in jail and all my siblings would be farmed off to family… (but did I forget everything???)

The answer to that is NO!!!

The picture above is while we were in that hotel and I had some fun dates with GI’s and got to eat out frequently… I had a blast… but was constantly under watch by my sister on some of those dates and she wasn’t even 16… (yea I remember a lot more than I let on to the family)…

Now I am living with, multiple conditions that are life threatening and it wouldn’t take much of a blow to my head to alter my reality until my memory trigger in 2017… But was that the only gift I got…???

I remember…

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