I Was Born in Quebec City, and I Was Afraid of Being Alone

I was born in quebec city. My first language was french. I remember we often got these molasses cookies at ten o'clock because it was assumed that we hadn't eaten breakfast. We would walk to and from school on their own. And this was a source of a lot of anxiety for me, because i was always afraid of being alone. From the age of about, well, six, i would say, i had this fear all through my school day that i would walk home school and come up to my front door and that our parents would have been gone. With my little sister, who's five years younger than me, i just thought the apartment would be empty

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