Right from when I came to have a sense of awareness, I always knew I was an odd ball. I just never knew how much oddity there was in me. The voices in my head grew to an alarming rate that I thought- no- I knew I was definitely going to go round the bend if something was not done soon. Voices that kept asking me for help, and people I kept seeing once I closed my eyes to take a nap or full on sleep. To drown them out, I went back to the farm against Maggi’s vehement objections. Even though she had hired someone to take on the role of farm hand, I knew I needed to cling to my decision like a lifeline, for that was what it was. Once I began taking out eggs from underneath the chickens and milking the cows, it became a soothing motion, one that drowned out every other thing from my mind a

