Abstract

... Most of all ... the love ... was a crucial part of my childhood and I think it made me into a whole person. That, I remember, the community love. People just loved you. I mean, if you were naughty, down the road, and Aunt B., or Mrs S., saw you, she belted you. And she knew that you were Miss A.'s daughter and you were out of order. People who I pass and didn't say 'Good morning', they'd say 'Come back here, you. Did you see me?' 'Yes ma'am.' 'Why didn't you say Good morning?' 'I don't know, ma'am.' Wallop, wallop, wallop. 'Getting too big for your boots.' And so the community had a parenting responsibility.

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