The Girl I Once Knew

Elizabeth Ann McPherson

(in Biography/Memoir)

Not everyone can remember everything from the past. Not that clearly anyway.

I am not sure why I can, but I do. I can recall life-changing events that shaped the life I have led. Both the good and the bad. In most cases these events have put me on a life course that I could never have foreseen as a child, growing up in Cornwall.

After all, like any other young girl, I longed for a handsome husband, adorable children, cute dogs and roses around the cottage door. A simple life, that was all I wanted.

My childhood, my foundation, created a mould for who I was to become and whom I desperately tried to change, control and perfect over the years.

I was already okay as I was. The thing is, I never knew it.