{"id":554,"date":"2006-08-04T10:24:28","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T10:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.israelgreenwald.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2015-03-13T20:06:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:06:41","slug":"a-little-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"A LITTLE PRINCESS"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a child there was a movie called \u201cA Little Princess\u201d<\/em> that I would watch over and over again. Strangely, I related to the main character Sarah, played by Shirley Temple.<\/p>\n

Sarah was a beautiful wealthy girl whose father, an important colonel in the army, had to go to war. He had no choice but to leave Sarah at a prestigious girl\u2019s only boarding school in England since Sarah had no mother. Mrs. Minchin treated Sarah with utmost respect knowing she was wealthy, but when her father was missing and presumed dead and the checks stopped, Sarah went from being a \u201cprincess\u201d to being a servant.<\/p>\n

The pain of losing a father and humiliation of going from riches to rags mimicked my life, but what really got me the most was the ending, when after never giving up hope, she found her father in a hospital with amnesia. I especially loved seeing her restored to her former respected self and watching Miss Minchin\u2019s humiliation for the way she treated her during her darkest days.<\/p>\n

I would then fantasize about my happy ending, picturing my father somewhere out there alive, perhaps also with amnesia, and one day I too will find him and life would go back to normal. All the kids who whispered and pointed, all the teachers who didn\u2019t understand, the community who gossiped and abandoned, the relatives who turned their back and the business associates who stole from us, would feel the shame of how they treated us.<\/p>\n

I prayed so hard for that ending.<\/p>\n

In the end we did find him, nineteen years later, bound, shot and buried\u2026 nothing but a skeleton, in a garage coincidently a block away from where we once lived for a little while. My \u2018happy ending\u2019 obviously turned out very different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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