City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

This is the Nola Ablett story, straight from the horse's mouth.It was a sad and lonely life for me. Even though we weren't a small family, every day seemed like a week. I don't remember ever owning a toothbrush. Not too many people knew we existed. It was our little hideaway in the country. I always loved that song 'Let the Rest of the World Go By', but those days ended when a couple of the Ablett boys 'sussed' us all out. My sister, Colleen ended up marrying Alfred and, unfortunately, I ended up with his brother, the greatest 'no hoper' of all time. Nanette got off scot free.To live with them you were their slave; in other words, we had to be the hot water bottle, and chief cook and bottle wahers. If we moved and we were warm, that's all that mattered. In their minds it was all about me, me, me, as mumma and father found out later, especially the night Alfred walltxed mumma out the dance hall door in front of old Stanley and back to our house and into the 'bridal suite'. While my father and we three kids searched the town for her, sahe was home in bed all the time. My father would never have forgotten that night. We were sent on a wild goose chase and soon after that night she said to me and only me, 'I'm expectin.'

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