Thank you Rhonda. You are very sweet and loving. Squeezings back at you!

When I was at OSB I told Mary Alexie about all this, and she lovingly 
told Mrs. DeVaul about it. Well, they scheduled a meeting for me to 
see the Psychologist, Doctor Sherwood. I talked to him, but I did not 
care for him at all. Then one Wednesday, Mom shoed up at school and 
came and found me, and asked me what was going on. They had obviously 
called her. I went to my usual swimming class while she talked to 
Doctor Sherwood. Then, another meeting was scheduled with both Mom 
and Dad. I was not in on that one either. Dad admitted to it, and he 
even cried. Well, it wasn't long, he started doing this again to me, 
and made me promise not to tell anyone. I did tell my brother, Ron, 
and I did tell a few other close friends. Dad and Mom got into a 
fight one Friday night after coming home from the local tavern.  I 
was scared, but I stayed up stairs. This was during the summer time 
when I was home from school. I guess Dad hit Mom. All this stuff was 
brought up, and Dad tried to leave home, but someone took the battery 
out of the car so he couldn't leave. The next few weeks were not fun 
either, ad Dad never spoke to me at all. He was mad at me. Things got 
so bad, that Dad did convince Mom that none of this ever happened, 
after the visit to the Psychologist, and yet it honestly did happen. 
When I was in high school, after I was 18, my home room teacher Mr. 
Durrell, threatetened to have him put in jail, but he didn't do this. 
I was glad I had him to talk to when I was in high school. It caused 
a lot of problems at home, and the spring that I was to graduate from 
Cleveland High, Mom hit me twice that spring, for no good reason, and 
I was so very glad to leave home for those reasons and much more.

Lovingly,
Pat Ferguson



At 07:16 PM 1/5/2008, you wrote:
>Pat.....what a hard and awful thing to go through!!  I am glad ou were able
>to forgive him.....I know it must have been a process that you went
>through!!
>God has given you love for others, and the  ability to encourage where once
>you felt unloved and  as though you had nothing to offer!
>Thanks for sharing this!!
>You are loving......hugs and lots of love to you,
>Rhonda
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