Hi, this is Spencer, On Spencer Reads for Unpretending’s Substack. And I'm reading chapter 2 of Freeing Finch written by Ginny Roby.
It's got some Roman numerals in parts of the chapter, so I'll just say 1, 2, 3, 4, as I go. OK.
You ready? Freeing Finch, written by Ginny Rorby. Chapter 2.
Transcript of Freeing Finch is omitted, you can by the book here: Freeing Finch
That's end of chapter 2.
I made a few mistakes reading that, sorry Ginny Rorby.
That's a lot of good information to know about Finch, whose name is Morgan. That's a lot of-of stuff for a kid to go through. When Finches father put his beer on the counter, that told me a lot about his father. When I was a little girl, my dad had a beer in his hand and a cigarette in his other.
Her mum must have had lots of pain when they took off her breasts. That's a shame that she got it again. And then it came back in her liver and her bones. Cancers a really yucky thing. I don't know where it comes from. Someone told me it came because you hold resentment and unforgiveness inside and wherever you hold it, that's where the cancer grows. But they were real religious, so I don't know if that's true or not.
We had a mum. And they were grown up here, when she got her cancer. It was in her lungs, but she never smoked. Maybe she was smoked..., maybe she was..., I don't know. They got rid of that. Well, they didn't really, but they thought they did, and then it came back in her brain. It was really sad for the one here, Sharon. It was really hard for her 'cause she had these two young kids who are now older. And those young kids? They really loved their Nana. Cause her…, the Nana was fun, and the mun here? (In our body), she was just trying to do what you have to do to make ends meet when you're a single mum. So them kids were really, really, really, really sad when the Nana died. The one here (in our body), she was more sad because…, well it's a grown-up thing why she was sad. 'Cause she never knew whether her mum actually loved her for her, or loved her because she had to, 'cause she was her kid. It wasn't her fault though. She didn’t know how to love…, well, she knew how to love our brother and sister, but that's another story.
I try not to think about those sorts of things. It's really sad that the father called Morgan names. I don't know why fathers do that, call names. Our father did that, too. Not-I wasn't called Nancy Boy, though, I was called other names, not just by my father, either.
Must been so sad. She died, the mom died, and Morgan only had the stepfather, and then he got married to another lady who wasn't like her mum. Imagine how lonely she felt, hey? I know about being alone a lot, but that's just how it was. I didn’t know it was so bad until these people here (in our System) came out and told me, it was just how it was.
Do you reckon Morgan's real father will come back one day? We’ll have to find out.
It’s given me a lot to think about, this chapter, a lot to think about in our past. I’m really glad that Ginny Rorby told us about Morgan’s past a little, it helps you understand more about the book as you go and read it.
So this has been Spencer for Spencer Reads on Unpretending’s Substack. We hope you looking forward to Chapter 3. Looks like we are going to try to read it once a week here and still do Dot and The Kangaroo at some stage, we got really busy with school holidays and stuff and our garage got flooded and we had to get all the stuff, cause it was a storage room, and we had to get all the stuff out of it has to be gone in the bin…, that you people sometimes call a trash can.
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