Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation
“Every day was just like the one before. In the morning she would get up, and dress and wash herself, and use the bathroom, and eat her breakfast; but she wouldn’t talk, not to the other children in the orphanage, not to plump, rosy-cheeked Mrs. Spencer, not to tall, gaunt Mr. Piwarski, not to the various government officials who paid her visits, not to the many different doctors and therapists she’d been carted off to over the months, sometimes spending days or weeks in strange white rooms with... mirrors all around. It didn’t really matter; wherever she was, she sat quietly, day after day, and stared at nothing.
To Katy, the world all these people moved through seemed a strange gray place that had nothing to do with her. Her world was all taken up by the hole in her heart, by the black pit that had formed the day the bad things came out of the sky and tore away the love she’d always felt flowing from her parents.
“Poor child,” she’d heard Mrs. Spencer say once, as she showed yet another child welfare officer the orphanage’s saddest case.MoreLess
To Katy, the world all these people moved through seemed a strange gray place that had nothing to do with her. Her world was all taken up by the hole in her heart, by the black pit that had formed the day the bad things came out of the sky and tore away the love she’d always felt flowing from her parents.
“Poor child,” she’d heard Mrs. Spencer say once, as she showed yet another child welfare officer the orphanage’s saddest case.MoreLess
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