“It was a
marriage by
kidnapping.”
the door behind her. Sometimes when
they went out together he walked behind her because young men always
tried to talk to her because he was
much older than her so no one ever
thought that he was her husband.
Since that day my mother never went
back to school because she gave birth
A Story in My Family
By Maseresha Nesega
It was marriage by kidnapping.
My mother was the victim. It was in
1969 and my mother was a teenager
and high school student. One afternoon my mother and her niece were returning from school when a car stopped
beside them and three policemen
jumped out of the car. Since a lot of
people were walking on the road my
mother and her niece thought that the
police were looking for someone who
did something bad, but the police directly came to my mom and forced her
to enter in the car. She tried to run,
but she couldn‟t do anything because
there were three police and the people
who were walking on the street were
scared because the three police were
wearing police uniforms. One of the
three men was my mother‟s husband,
who is my father. After they started
living as husband and wife together he
didn‟t want her to go out and every
time he went to work he used to lock
every year and a half. My mother
never loved my father. This is my family‟s story that affects all my family
until today.
Teacher: Sheryl Sherwin
ESL 5 Afternoon
Fall 2009
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