<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399440" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The bathroom was like a sanctuary</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a teenager<br>the bathroom was<br>like a sanctuary.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A place where<br>in privacy<br>I could in nudity<br>reflect on life</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and soak in hot water<br>and wash every thing dirty<br>away from me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was undisturbed until<br>my mother married again<br>and one of my stepsisters<br>had a small girl<br>who used to follow me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and when I was eighteen<br>and she was about thirteen.<br>time and time again<br>she somehow<br>unlocked the bathroom<br>and walked in on me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From where I shouted her out<br>in anger and shock<br>and wasn’t amused<br>to get a shouting back<br>from a step father<br>who wasn’t a dad to me<br>and didn’t see<br>anything wrong with it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thinking back <br>it might have been something<br>in her genetics<br>or a lack of good moral standing, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">since her mother (my ex step sister) <br>who was quite beautiful, <br>in vain tried to seduce my brother<br>but never tried<br>to set that snare for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399440" data-title="The bathroom was like a sanctuary de Gert Strydom" data-description="As a teenager the bathroom was like a sanctuary. A place where in privacy I could in nudity reflect on life and soak in hot water and wash every thing dirty away from me. I was undisturbed until my mother married again and one of my stepsisters..."></div> </div> </div>

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