Marshall was 13 when I became pregnant with his half brother Nathan. |
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He was delighted. |
non-authorial positive Affect |
I have always loved kids and fostered four;the house was always full of waifs and strays |
authorial positive Affect |
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. |
non-authorial negative Affect |
Until then Marshall was a normal, happy boy. |
non-authorial positive Affect |
She changed him, she wound him up, |
Possibly non-authorial Affect if we construe `wound up' as meaning `got him angry'. |
and they had the most terrible rows. |
Possible indicator/sign of non-authorial negative affect (sign of anger) |
I had to break up the cursing between them. The girl thrives on confrontation. But Marshall was never violent towards her. He may rap about raping and murdering her but he has never laid a finger on her. When they had a row he took it out on his car, he would come screaming home and punch the car. I've never seen a vehicle with so many dents in it.
