Fear: My Childhood Was Not the Usual Childhood That Every Child Would Love to Have

By Magaret Johnson

This book is written to inspire people to not lose hope in life and have faith but also to learn to let go. The book also gives deep insight of my life and things I have never said before. I have written this book to lift a heavy sorrow off me and also it has helped me to move forward and let the past be the past. It has also given me the courage to make serious decisions and make the best out of life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Nov 21, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499017298

Magaret Johnson

Magaret Johnson is an Australian citizen born in Guinea, West African. She came to Australia seven years ago with her mother and sister. Her mother is Liberian and her father is Guinean. She is the first born child of her mother and the second to the last for her father.

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CHAPTER 1

B oth my parents are English, and I was born in my mother’s country, which is in the west part of England. I left to go to my dad’s country when I was three years old with Mum and Dad. We didn’t know anyone when we first came to my dad’s country, and it was hard for my mum and me but not for my dad because that was his country. My dad worked in the army and went to my mother’s country because of the war, and that is how he met my mum, Grace Sheriff.

When we arrived at my dad’s country, my dad’s family didn’t like my mother because they said that she had come from a different country, a different culture, and had not come from the same village. My dad’s mother told my dad that my mum should leave the village and go back to her own country, but my dad didn’t listen to her. He took my mum and me to the city where his house was and the houses he had built that people were renting. My grandmother and grandfather told my dad that they had found a wife for him and that the wedding was next week. My dad didn’t know about the wedding until my grandmother sent him a letter saying so.

That night, I could see that my dad was frustrated, and he showed my mum my grandmother’s letter. My mum was shocked, and she kept her mouth shut, and she didn’t say anything until after a minute. She finally said something. She said, ‘Do whatever pleases you, and whatever you decide, remember one thing, that no matter what, I will always be there for you and support you.’

Dad was shocked and happy as well, but I think it was because he was surprised and thought that my mum would leave and take me away from him. But that’s not what my mum did. She thought it would be wrong if she left him and took me away. My mum didn’t go to the wedding, but she was in the city trying to make new friends. After my dad had been in the village for one week, he finally came back, but he wasn’t alone; he was with his new wife whom he had married in the village.

My dad’s new wife found out that my mother was still there, and she told my grandmother. Later that night, my grandmother called my father and asked him why he didn’t listen to her and that he was bringing embarrassment to the family.

My grandmother came down to the city without telling my father, and my