{"id":6534,"date":"2022-05-06T08:44:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T08:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/?p=6534\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T15:13:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T15:13:42","slug":"good-sister-sally-hepworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/en\/2022\/05\/06\/good-sister-sally-hepworth\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;THE GOOD SISTER&#8221; by Sally Hepworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/The-good-sister.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/The-good-sister-198x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/The-good-sister-198x300.jpeg 198w, https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/The-good-sister.jpeg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>Even if they were twin sisters and lived together, Rose and Fern had different memories of their childhood.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>&#8220;When we were five, my mother took my sister, Rose, and me to the library every day for a year.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>&lt;&lt;A better education than school will ever give you&gt;&gt;<\/strong><em><strong>, Mum used to say, and I quite agree.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>If it were up to me, every child would have a year in the library before they went to school. <br \/>\nNot just to read, but to roam. <br \/>\nTo befriend a librarian. <br \/>\nTo bash their fingers against the computers and to turn the pages of a book while making up a story from their superior little imagination.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>How lucky the world would be if every child could do that.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I was lucky.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>These days, researchers seem to be saying that we don&#8217;t form explicit memories until the age of seven, but I have a number of memories from the year I was five. <br \/>\nMemories of Mum, Rose, and me waking up with the birds, scrambling into our clothes and racing out to the bus stop. Because of our eagerness, we nearly always arrived before the library opened&#8230; When we got inside, Rose and I took turns sliding our books into the return slot and then racing to select our beanbags for the day.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Often, we didn&#8217;t see Mum for the whole day. That was part the fun.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>We went to the toilet by ourselves, we went to the water fountain by ourselves.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>At the library, we were in charge of what we did and when.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Do you know what I remember from the library years?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Sleeping on couches that smelled of dog; being dragged from our old flat in the middle of the night and not being allowed to bring any toys; hauling striped plastic bags out of strangers&#8217; houses every morning and putting them in the boot of Mum&#8217;s little car to take wherever we were headed next; waking up every morning with a pain in my stomach, a combination, I realize now, of hunger and fear.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>You know something funny?\u00a0I don&#8217;t think Fern even knows we were homeless that year.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>She probably told herself it was an adventure, or a holiday or an experience. 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