This Is Actually Happening Wondery

I was born in the Sacramento (Calif) area in the early 1950s (I was number 2 of 6 children) with TWO club feet. Casts were immediately placed on my feet (I still have a pair that my parents saved for me); I don’t know how frequently they were replaced or how long I wore them. One of my sisters (she is 2 years younger than me) was born with ONE club foot — she also wore a cast on that foot (I don’t know for how long), but I do remember her wearing a brace on that leg — when she may have been 3 years old (?). Our parents were always concerned about our feet and saw to it that we wore “proper fitting” shoes (oxfords instead of the newly appearing canvas/tennis shoes of the early 1960s). I never had any problems with my feet over the years—except having small feet (women’s size 5-1/2 or 6 and finding age-appropriate shoes to fit me), but I am also a small person (5’ 2” and 110 lbs). My younger sister ended up with one foot one full size larger than the other, and also had to wear special orthotics. I have rarely heard of anyone else being born with this same condition and that more recently surgeries were done in attempts to correct the condition. I was never teased/bullied about it except when in junior high school (7th & 8th grades) my parents bought me black Hush Puppy shoes that looked like boy shoes (like wingtips without the wingtips) that I had to wear with dresses (girls were not allowed to wear pants at school/church at that time—the early 1960s). I complained about the teasing to my parents but my father (raised during the Great Depression) told me his father bought him “patent leather” shoes which he had to wear about that same age of his life. I guess that was said to make me feel appreciative that I even had good structural support shoes—he never acknowledged that the teasing was good/bad for me. However, as an adult in my business employment, I always wore high heels (a couple of inches high) and never had feet problems. I don’t know that I can wear heels now being retired and wearing flat all-purpose shoes all of the time. 😊

That guy didn’t “shield” his students. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to disrespect him and my heart goes out to him because of what he experienced. But that title makes it seem like he took a bullet for the kids in his class, which he did not.

“A man and his wife.” Do you mean a married couple? A husband and wife? A man and a woman? Or better yet, how about “a woman and her husband”? The way people talk about women like we are property is insane