We fell out initially because I wanted to leave Detroit and go back to Missouri. |
authorial Affect |
He didn't want me to go |
non-authorial Affect |
and turned all his anger on me. |
non-authorial negative Affect |
It was the beginning of the end and I blame his wife Kim. She bullies Marshall yet he has gone back to her time and again because of their daughter Hailie. |
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He loves Hailie so much |
non-authorial positive Affect |
and wants to be a proper father to her unlike his own dad. |
non-authorial positive Affect |
Despite what Marshall says, we lived in nice neighbourhoods not slums. But he was picked on because he was always a tiny thing. When he was eight, after a series of beatings, he fell into a coma. The doctors did not think he would live but I prayed and prayed until he pulled through. |
[No Affect] |
He had to re-learn how to do simple things like speak and eat and one of the side effects from the head injury, I believe, were his behavioural problems. Obviously I became over protective. I was single, he was my only son. Years later, he abused me because he changed schools so many times, blaming me. Yet the truth is whenever he had a problem at school, he came home and demanded to move. And I gave in to him. [No Affect] Marshall was 13 when I became pregnant with his half brother Nathan. He was delighted. I have always loved kids and fostered four; the house was always full of waifs and strays. One of those troubled souls was Kim Scott, who moved in with us when she was 12. Marshall was about 15 and she lied about her age saying she was the same. They got together and that was it. Chaos reigned. Until then Marshall was a normal, happy boy. She changed him, she wound him up, and they had the most terrible rows.
