Silence !
"I have been in this orphanage for a very long time. I don't know how many years have passed since I came here, since I was abandoned. Some say, it has been 20 years. I don't believe them. None who were here on the day I arrived survive. So no one here knows my age. Neither do I. Maybe you do. I don't miss home. I never had one. This orphanage is whatever I know of home. I have become a part of it and so has it in mine. It is the best thing that ever happened to you. After you. When I was a kid, a sister by the name Nancy, once told me that I was dropped here on August 16. She told me I might not have been more than a day old when she first lay eyes on me. Even she doesn't remember the year. All she remembers is that when I came here, there were ten kids already and I was the pet of all. She also told me that I looked like a doll. I think she was just being kind. Like any others, I don't remember much of my childhood. The earliest memory I have is the ...