Richard Feidler
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That's my go-to place.
Yeah, that was – and you can't change the past but like – so I was doing – I was very good at English.
I was very good at biology, geography.
I was a curious kid.
I loved to learn everything.
And then my sister came home one day and said she was going to be babysitting for this gardener.
We had a private, very posh private housing estate next to the council estate and she'd met this guy who was the gardener there and he needed someone to look after his 18-month-old child while he worked on Saturday mornings and you got 10 shillings for it.
And so she did that and she came home and just said, I'm not doing that.
Do you want to do it?
I don't want to do this anymore.
No explanation, which I really think about now.
So I did it.
I was able to buy my first transistor radio.
And so I did that.
And, you know, that was five years I did that.
The young girl was only 18 months old and I basically was her sister or her mother for five years I taught her to read.
But the abuse happened probably within about three or four months.
From the Gardner.
And that's when everything changed.
I was 11 when it started.