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Eve Drewelowe autobiographical writing, 1980s
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Evidence & Memory Quite baffling to me the lack of experience. Wax crayons with color in my young life. Surely they must have existed in my childhood. But I can my mind recollect have no recollection. Do not identify with either possession or experience... And now this memory has me troubled. Surely I could have been denied colors...The thought was intolerable. I rejected that thought. An impossibility, Ed. at No 10 not only demanded no [illegible] but also no color for a child to play with. A abhorrent [illegible] molding wing [illegible] I am cutting to the quick. An abhorrent thought. I cry! I weep with sheer neglect. I'm deeply wounded and bitterly disappointed! Can only speculate. Supplies in color [illegible] not yet crossed reached the miss. The truth to tell, I had been wounded with deprivation. Crayons Someone should have supplied my mom knew she had something but she did not know it was I. Baby driven life. Baby preoccupied. My own creative [media?]
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Evidence & Memory Quite baffling to me the lack of experience. Wax crayons with color in my young life. Surely they must have existed in my childhood. But I can my mind recollect have no recollection. Do not identify with either possession or experience... And now this memory has me troubled. Surely I could have been denied colors...The thought was intolerable. I rejected that thought. An impossibility, Ed. at No 10 not only demanded no [illegible] but also no color for a child to play with. A abhorrent [illegible] molding wing [illegible] I am cutting to the quick. An abhorrent thought. I cry! I weep with sheer neglect. I'm deeply wounded and bitterly disappointed! Can only speculate. Supplies in color [illegible] not yet crossed reached the miss. The truth to tell, I had been wounded with deprivation. Crayons Someone should have supplied my mom knew she had something but she did not know it was I. Baby driven life. Baby preoccupied. My own creative [media?]
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