Any Old Reason

Survival Schul

It’s dim now, but what I remember most about that night was the physical pain. My mother woke me in the middle of the night in a state of total hysteria. ‘Get up, now! It’s Tony! He’s in the hospital! Get up, NOW!’

My left ear was in agony. It felt like it had been crushed.

I had been sleeping on the floor on a folded-up blanket, and my head had slipped o…