Sent-away Child

What happened to me?

I was still so young.

How could they do that to us?

Where were the sensible guardians?

I was only 7.

No one was there for me.

I was a sent-away child.

They told me now.

Why did they do this to us?

Everyone looked away with open eyes.

Damn.

I spent my whole life wondering where I got these strange habits from.

I was afraid of train journeys.

But not of the journey itself,

But of getting lost.

Fifty years ago, I must have gotten lost, because what kind of parents send you to something like that?

That home in St. Peter Ording was hell.

What did I do wrong that I had to come here?

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I was a sent-away child.

They told me now.

Why did they do this to us?

Everyone looked the other way.

Damn it!

Haus Frisia changed me!

Today I ask myself who I would be without these terrible interventions in my personal development.

Without what I experienced, would I also constantly cry when I say goodbye because I'm going on vacation for two weeks?

Would I still be someone who constantly swallows everything I don't like?

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I was a sent-away child.

They told me now.

Why did they do this to us?

Everyone looked the other way.

Damn it!

I couldn't defend myself back then.

And not today, because everything is statute-barred.

And the guilty parties are no longer within reach.

And no one will learn from this, because no one will feel the consequences!

Except us! We, the sent-away children!

Why did they do this to us?

Everyone looked away with their eyes wide open.

Damn