September
2008
Episode 16 - Olivia
A reading from the book Policies of Exclusion, Poverty & Health: Stories from the front. Compiled, with Introduction and Reports by Chrystal Ocean. Copyright 2005.
Olivia was one of several children in her family. Raised on a 60-acre farm, she attended a one-room schoolhouse until Grade four.
Those wide spaces in which to roam and learn, in a home which was generally loving and supportive, shaped Olivia’s common sense view of life and her appreciation of diversity. Unfortunately, it didn’t protect her from experiencing one abusive relationship after another.
My future? I know what’s to come, so it doesn’t bother me… Death is the least of my fears. There are worse things, like living on Social Services. Death is a natural process of life. On the other hand, death by Social Services is an unnatural death.
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