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fandomsecrets2012-12-28 07:00 pm
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[ SECRET POST #2187 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2187 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[ ----- SPOILERY SECRETS AHEAD ----- ]
06. [SPOILERS for Once Upon a Time]
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07. [SPOILERS for amazing spiderman]
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08. [SPOILERS for Nu52 Stormwatch]
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[ ----- TRIGGERY SECRETS AHEAD ----- ]
09. [WARNING for rape, sexual assault, gore]
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10. [WARNING for rape]
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11. [WARNING for abuse]
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12. [WARNING for child sexual abuse]
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14. [WARNING for violence, RL deaths]
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #312.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 (not broken, but being reported as malicious?) - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - personal attack ].
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Re: Best Story Ever Told To You By A Person Much Older Than You
(Anonymous) 2012-12-29 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)Nana earned 7 dollars a week as a cleaner. Although she took all her meals at her employers' house, and helped with housework and childcare too whenever she was home, her sister charged her the full rate of 5 dollars a week.
The winter she was 14, Nana caught whooping cough. Her sister grudgingly let her stay in bed while she was really sick, but complained bitterly about losing the 5 dollars a week and nagged her all the time to hurry up and get back to work. Finally, while Nana was still sick, they had a fight. Older sister accused Nana of mooching off her and demanded to know how long she expected to lie around in bed. Nana retorted that older sister had already made plenty of money off her already by robbing her blind for room and board for months. Older sister called Nana an ingrate--if Older Sister hadn't given her a good home, Nana would have no place to go. Nana said that it wasn't such a good home when she wasn't even allowed to go to school. Older sister was so angry that she threw Nana out then and there.
The story ends happily. Nana found another cleaning job, then a job as a waitress. The youngest of the partners in the restaurant liked her at once. Little by little, he went from giving her books to courting her. Or maybe he courted her by giving her books.
Reader, she married him. She was only sixteen, and he was 25. But they lived happily for 25 years and had 3 children, one of whom was my father.
She died two years ago, just a few months short of her hundredth birthday.
Re: Best Story Ever Told To You By A Person Much Older Than You
(Anonymous) 2012-12-30 05:06 am (UTC)(link)and sorry to insult your family, but her sister was such a jerk D:
Re: Best Story Ever Told To You By A Person Much Older Than You
(Anonymous) 2012-12-30 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)I have so many happy memories of Nana's kitchen and her apartment with its walls lined with books, and her letters--she could tell such stories!