Whether at school or at home, the beatings were
regular and as much psychological as physical. There were other minds
games and tortures at the house that still seem to wake me up with cold
sweats. One of the most damaging mental terrors was being “sent to the
spiders.” The Southwestern area of America is riddled with black widow
spiders. Our hall closet always had 8 to 10 hour-glasses
within, at any given time. The closet was roughly 3'x 3'x 8.' It was the
storage for all the jackets, tools, fishing poles, etc. once a week, I
would be locked in the closet for 10 to 15 minutes. Before being shooed
in, I was warned “don't move too much, they will see you body heat and
get you.” The mind does terrible things when you stand statuesque in the
dark waiting for a black widow to bite you. Terror has never had such
sharp claws as those of the anticipation of something dark and evil that
never comes.
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