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Jeannette's parents have very strong belives. They belive that people are overprotective of their children. They belive that what ever happens is gods will. She once had a sister named Mary Charlene. She died in her crib as a baby. Her mom trust's that it was gods will. Later on the end up living in a hotel near the pacific ocen. Jeannette and her siblings in one room, and their parents in the other. One night the kids room caught fire and, the had to flee the hotel. Once again the bacome nomade -
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Jeannette saw her mother in the streets, as she was going to a highclass party. She hide and quikly headed back to her house. Ashmed of herself. She started recalling her childhood momeries. her family were like a nomad living, any where they could survive. Running away from the "FBI", as her parents would say. The "FBI" was really just tax collectors. -
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Jeannette's mom finds out shes pregnant. Her dad loses his job right before christmas, meaning the didn't get any physical presents. Also her dad got really drunk and started being abusive towards jeannettes mother. At the end Her mother had the baby and the called her Lily Ruth Maureen. -
page 48-58
They moved to Battle mountian, into a old train station. They got there by U-haul. The parents in the front of the truck, and the kids in the storage part of the truck. Her dad got a job as a electrician.They got a piano, after trying a failed attempt at pulling the pieno into the house by a pully, they left the piano at the pack of the house. -
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Jeannettes dad, lost his job. He says hes gone all day bercause he is trying to make a contraption that extracts gold from the dpths of rocks. But in reality he's just drinking. The no longer have food to eat. Their mother starts fighting with the dad, and he throughs all her painting supplies out the window, and pushses her out to. She decideds to get a job as teacher. Their father takes all the money and spends it on his "inventionn", yet again the don't have any food left. -
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Billy moved into towm, He was three years older then jeannette, which he took a liking to. He kept telling the other people that they were dating. Her mom told her to be nice to him. So they became friends. One day Jeannette was playing hide and seek with some other kids, and she hide in a small shak. Billy ended up following her into the shak and raping her. A little while after that billy come through Jeannette's family window and started shooting them with bbs. -
78-90 part 2
Jeannette and her siblings ahot around him to scare hime away. The police ended up coming, saying that they were going to have to go to court to see what there punishment will be. They pack up in nthe middlee of the night and head to Pheonix. -
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They moved to a "mansion" of a house in Pheonix. They lived in an area with a large population of mexicans. The kids had to go to a school far away from their house, because the only school around them was the cathlic school. Their dad got a job, and their mother opened up her art studio in the house. . One night a pedophile came through the open doors/windows and started touching Jeannette. After chasing him out, both jeannette, brian made a game, "Pervert Hunt -
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Yet agian, their dad isn't making money, and becomes a drunk. On christmas he was so drunk that he decided to light the christmas tree on fire. -
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for Jeannettes birthday she said all she wanted was for her dad to stop drinking. So the next day he started a week long cleansing, where he was tied to a bed. He was able to over come it for a short while, but then fell back in his old ways, and started drinking agian. Jeannettes mother decided to go see, the fathers parents, to help "sort him out" -
128-155 part 2
they went to go live with max's parents. The grandpma was a very grouchy, perverred old lady. The kids had to go to the puplic school, which was much more sader then there last one. At first Jeannette was getting bullyed by a goup of girls, but after bring home one of the girls naghbours, they stopped. The parents decieded to go back to Pheonix by themselfs to pick up some of their stuff. Mean while the grough old hag started sexually abusing brian. -
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The kids were no longer aloud on the upper floor, because they interfered with the grandmothers sexual abuse on Brian. When the parents got back, they were mad at the kids at first. But then decided to move out and buy there own house. Their new house was small and run down. -
170-196 Part 1
Winter came, and the Walls had no heating. They had no money to buy coal either so they would gather the pieces of coal that had follen off the trucks and made fires. Erma( the grandmother) died, and her dad was saverly depresed. He was gone for a couple of day, untill Jeannette had to go find him and convince him to come back. The snow melted and the rainy season hit. There was alot of damage to the lower level houses, and alot of people died. Lucky for the walls nothing happened to their house -
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There new house was in the poor part of town, but the Walls where still the poorest family. They got teased alot for there parents strang ways, like the pit filled with garbage, so they wouldn't have to pay for pick up. Or the fact that their house had a unfinished paint job. There were many fights, involving both the adults and the children. Again Jeannettes dad had only odd jobs, and was drubk all the time. One night he came back home, with a gash on his arm. Jeannette had to sow it up for him -
170-196 Part 2
After a rainy season came the humitity, since the "white" kids bullyed Heannette and Brian the couldn't go swimming at the public pool. Jeannette decided to go in the morning, with all the "black" people. A child care worker came to visit the Walls house, when only Jeannette was home. She managed to evade his questions and, he left. She was able to convince her mom to get a job. After asking her to leave her father Max because of his destrucful life style. -
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Jeannette got a job at a jewllery shop. Her sister went to a art camp over the summer, and her mom went to reniue her teching degree. Meaning Jeannette had control over the financees. She found out hoe=w hard it was to say no to her dad. When summer ended and her mom got back she, said she would no longer work. Jeannette tried getting her up the next morning but she wouldnt budge. Jeannette told her mom that she should start acting ike a mother, then later told her dad the same thing. She got i -
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Jeannette and her siblings decided to save money, so they could move to New YOrk after they garduate. Lori was the first one to go and get settled, then Jeannette would go. Lori left for New York and found a job and a nice apartment. At the age of 17 Jeannette decided to leave. She told her parents, and they agreed to letting her go. She headed off to New York. -
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They became homeless. Much later they found a abondond building and decided to live in it with some other people. Jeannette is now finished her degree, and is moving in with her boyfriend. -
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Jeannette got a internship at the Phoniex news paper. Brian came to New YOrk just a couple of month after her.The bos encorudged her to go to college and get a degree. She moved out of Loris house, and went to Barnard an IV leage school. Then Maureen came to New York. She lived with Brian so she could attend a good school. A couple of months later their parents shoud up, at first they were living wiht the kids but then got kicked out. -
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After four years of living with Eric Jeannette got marryed. Her parents were still skuating, Lori was working as a free-lance artist, and Brian was married and was a policman. Then Maaureen was going crazy, she stabbed her mother because she didn't ewant to move out. She left for California after a visit to the court house. Max found out he was dying from a rare tropical dieses, he only lasted a couple weeks before dying. Jeannette left eric and marryed Jhon, and the Walls family seems happy.