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Confessions of a BRAT!
by Sara Mosher
Published in the 14 May 2004 cafba newsletter

Can you keep a secret?

I have a secret. I've been carrying it around with me for more than 40 years and it's time to come clean.

One recent morning, closeted with my skeleton in the cupboard, I recalled the one and only time in my life that I ever stole anything. I was seven or eight years old then.

Every Saturday my twin sister Debra and I would each collect 25 cents for allowance and take the bus to the movies. There was no such thing as bus fare. Our parents taught us that when we got off the bus what we must do in appreciation of the free ride was say, "Thank you Sir."

Twenty-five cents was good money for a child, enough to pay for admission to the movies and some candy.

After the movie, Debra and I usually went home together but not always. Sometimes Debra would go off with a friend and I'd walk home alone. On one such occasion I stopped in at the grocery store. I'd been there before and I knew exactly where to go—straight to one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen—a package of 10 ballpoint pens, each one a different colour. What was really special about those particular pens was that the colour of the plastic casing matched the colour of the ink. If the pen was purple, so was the ink.

The package of pens was 99 cents, a whole lot of money for a little girl. I decided that the only way I would ever have the object of my great desire would be if I stole them, and so I did.

I took the treasure trove of colourful pens home, hid them and used them in secret. No one ever knew about them, not even Debra, not even to this day.

I never stole again, probably because I knew stealing was wrong and possibly because I never wanted anything so much as those wonderful pens.

Our family was living at R.C.A.F. Station Goose Bay, Labrador when I secretly made off with my booty. I've been in touch with several others who also lived in Goose Bay as children during the early '60s and we've exchanged some fond memories.

On this particular morning, after I had been contemplating my criminal past, I checked my e-mail to find another note from a fellow who had lived in Goose Bay the same time we had. One of the memories he shared?

"My father ran the grocery store."

Thanks to CAFBA I've been in touch with several others who also lived in Goose Bay......Sara

editor's note: many thanks Sara for making this contribution!

(editor's note: Statute of limitations has expired for this felony so there will be no reward issued for the capture and conviction of this notorious thief!)

Until next time! Be Good! But remember you are still a BRAT!


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