The next time they visited [in the hospital], Brian's head was wrapped in a dirty white bandage with dried bloodstains. Mom said he had fallen off the back of the couch and cracked his head open on the floor, but she and dad had decided not to take him to the hospital.
"There was blood everywhere," Mom said, "but one kid in the hospital at a time is enough"
"Besides," Dad said, "Brian's head is so hard, I think the floor took more damage than he did"
Brian thought this was hilarious and just laughed and laughed.
Mom told me she had entered me in a raffle at a fair, and I'd won a helicopter ride. I was thrilled. I had never been in a helicopter or a plane.
"When do I get to go on the ride?" I asked.
"Oh, we already did that," Mom said, "It was fun."
These are just a few lines from the book The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls. It shows what her family is like. Things get passed off like they are no big deal in her family. Like getting set on fire, or missing out on a helicopter ride in your name. This is all she knows so how should she know it is wrong?
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