and that, even in straitened circumstances, we should always conduct ourselves properly.
It was almost as though she thought we were some kind of displaced royalty, you know...
the family of a deposed tsar or an overthrown monarch or something.
I tried so hard, but I never managed to look and behave the way she thought I should, to behave appropriately.
That made her very unhappy, and very angry. Mind you, it wasn’t just me.
No one was ever good enough. She was always telling us we had to be on the lookout for someone who was good enough.”
I shook my head. “I suppose that’s how I ended up here,” I said.
“Trying to find someone like that, and then getting confused and making a giant mess of everything.”
I realized that my whole body was shaking like a wet dog on a cold morning. Maria looked up.
“Let’s move on, for now,” she said gently. “Do you want to tell me something about what happened after you and your mother parted company,
about your experience of the care system? What was that like?” I shrugged.
“Being fostered was... fine. Being in residential care was... fine.
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