We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen or in a big lard can.
I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with but you can't go...
My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army but I never called them...
I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.