Writing Group III

Her mother had always stressed the importance of good posture. Lessons like that survive. They survive childhood years when you experience an uprooting from your native country due to politics involving your father. They survive the years when you live in a new place, forced to work at sixteen instead of finishing school. They survive your marriage to an alcoholic and your raising of ten children with him as your spouse. They survive the loss of a nine year old daughter to drowning. They survive the loss of your third child to cancer during his fifty-fifth year. Yes, good posture is very important, because when you have it no one suspects.