For the first five decades of her life, Dolly wore her inferiority complex like a second skin. It was so much a part of her that she didn’t even know it was there. Possibly nobody else did either. At the age of four she was told, by her birth Mother, ‘big girls don’t cry’. So from that time on she didn’t!! Except when she absolutely couldn’t help it and then she would go away on her own so that she wouldn’t be a nuisance or make anyone cross with her. It was the age when children were seen but not heard. Just before her eighth birthday her Father left without saying ‘Goodbye’ and this resulted in her Mother having to put Dolly and her little sister into foster care. There were three homes, the first was only temporary whilst a permanent one was found. The second was not a happy experience for Dolly but the third was just magic. She felt so lucky to be a part of Mum’s family. In decade number six there were many changes in Dolly’s life, she walked away from a thirty year marriage and set up home on her own, not an easy thing to do. Many new friends came into her life and between them they managed to teach her how to value herself. It took a lot of patience and persistence but gradually the healing took hold and is still continuing today. By helping others she found that she was helping herself too, magic.
