Pauline Black
What I Wish I'd Known
I Was Picked Because I Was a Girl and They Don't Want a Girl
My parents at that time they were in their forties and my mother had had Bell's palsy so she'd already had four sons. They didn't actually care I don't think or didn't necessarily give it too much thought that you know this child was black and they were white. So I went for the earliest memory. My earliest memory vomiting all over the floor while my mother was doing the washing that morning. She would wash things by hand with a with a board a washboard thing scrubbing against that give it a bit of a mango and then hang it out to dry after after rinsing. And I remember sitting there having my breakfast and she started talking to me about being
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