Lorraine Watson, cont'd

They were wonderful parents and there isn't anything I wouldn't do for them. My mother won't allow anyone in the house. I've asked my mother, can we please get a maid and somebody that could help me with washing the floors or the bathrooms and she doesn't want any strangers in the house. And I asked for a gardener and my mother said, no, we don't want any gardeners, that my father could still do it. And he can't. I mean, I literally do all the trimming on the lawn and it's hard. I thought I was good until I tackled the bushes with the trimmers.

My mom and dad were so good to me as a child. Not only were they good to me, they were good to my blind sister. Whatever I wanted my parents gave me. Most of all they gave me all their time and their attention. I mean all of it. I think I was the most spoiled kid on the block.

Lorraine and parents

There wasn't anything that my dad wouldn't do for me. He always had time to listen to me. Always. And so now it's time for me to be helping. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for my mom and dad.

I just think how lucky I was to have been born to people like them, who sacrificed everything for me. I went to good schools and I know that they took from their savings account so I could go to, maybe, summer camp, and do things like that. And so, I've had a good life. I've had a very wonderful life and exciting life. And now it's time for me to be quieter and make a turn, and to give back to them. And I'm glad that I am, that I can. I'm strong enough to give back to them.

It's interrupted my final phase of my education a little bit, but I think this is going to help me to be much stronger in my new location. I've learned so much that no book could ever teach me, about caring for a person. You can't put that kind of emotion into it. You can't read about these things that I'm learning.

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