Cutlery: Episode 2

"To keep the cutlery clean, wash it 40 times over, okay?" said 🙇🏻‍♀️ Zeta to her foster child, 🙇🏿‍♀️ Xperia.

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"Cutlery is important." Said Zeta.

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Her foster dad, Joshua, who had fostered her without Zeta's consent, came home from work.

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She ran to him ecstatically as her foster mom, Zeta, groaned and facepalms as her dad welcomed her with open arms.

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The police suddenly showed up at the door. Xperia's real mother and father had found her, and they told her foster parents all that had happened.

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Joshua was devastated, but Zeta smiled, saying, "Good, get her off my hands."

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Xperia had been told what happened by an officer, as well.

Xperia's mother & father were overjoyed, & Xperia exposed Zeta to the police officers & got Zeta arrested.

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Xperia loves Joshua, but since Xperia has her biological parents, she no longer lives under Joshua and, thus, is not under his thumb in case anything she does to relieve herself of child abuse backfires.

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Her mother, Sally, was so heartbroken that she'd be abused like that. Her father, Ruby, was fuming.

Joshua felt so bad for Xperia.

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3 months later.

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Inside Ruby's Biological Parents' house, They sit in wooden chairs at a black table. Ruby chats up with Xperia, catching up with life. Sally tells her about their life.

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Sally taught Xperia about Cherokee culture, something Xperia is not accustomed to. Her father, Ruby, chose to teach Xperia Haitian culture, something she knew nothing of, and learned more about Cherokee culture than Haitian culture, & she knew very little of Cherokee culture.

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With her hair all-natural, Xperia chose to listen but wasn't interested in learning either culture & only wanted to play with her parents.

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Xperia hated Cherokee music but had nothing against Haitian music cuz' it sounded good to her. Xperia wasn't interested in Haitian clothes but loved Cherokee clothes; the feathers did not emotionally phase Xperia.

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Her mom, Sally, tried to teach Xperia about the struggles of the Cherokees, which made her sob.

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Her dad, Ruby, tried to teach Xperia about the struggles of people in Haiti, making her cry.

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Xperia would cry in her room, not about culture, history, or racism, but her sordid childhood.

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Xperia got in bed that night & thanked God in prayer. "Thank you, Jesus Christ, for keeping me safe & saving me from Zeta, in Jesus' name, Amen!" Said Xperia.

To Be Continued...