MOC 12 - Day 16 - Human Connections

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My journaling:
As a child I was shy and withdrawn, I didn't have many friends and the ones I had lived 5 km from me, which meant we couldn't play that often outside of school. In our house we had a big drying attic where I loved spending time, especially in the summer when it was warm and nice. It was a special scent of old wood that I wish I could have put in a bottle to take out and sniff a little sometimes. Up in the attic there were also a lot of books that we got from our neighbor, whose child had read them when she was little. I loved sitting up there and losing myself in other worlds, for me the characters became "friends". A book character that has followed me through the years is Kulla-Gulla, an orphaned girl who grew up as a servant in a croft during the early 20th century. I loved reading about her hardships and I actually think it was Kulla-Gulla who laid the foundation for my interest in how the crofters lived in Sweden during the late 1800s and early 1900s. My mother sometimes talked about her upbringing as a maid, it felt like Kulla-Gulla gave me a little understanding of the life my mom had, even though she didn't tell me much about her younger years.