Autor: Violet Brooke

Why I wrote the book Bunkie: My husband was sick and in the hospital when I thought about writing a book on my childhood. We lived in a different world from what children live in now, so I thought I would tell about my world when I was little, so this is how Bunkie got started. I was born at home, the fifth girl of eight. We lived in a poor house with no running water, no electricity, no phones, no books, no bathroom, no nothing that we are used to now. We were poor, but so was everyone else, we thought, so it didn’t matter at all. We never went to a doctor, a dentist, or church, but we all had to go to school and work in the fields at home. Parents had children to work the farm when l came along, and that is what you had to do—no ifs and ands about it either; that’s how it was. So I learned early in life to make your own fun and be happy no matter what came along. I learned everything I could learn. I made it fun. It became a game to be better than anyone around me, so this was important to me. It made me strong, and I always stood up for what was right. I learned later in life that life is not about me or things of this world, but life is a journey through this world into the next world of wonderful things that God has in store for us in heaven. So I made it my goal to help others that are in need, so it has become a blessing to me to be able to do this in God’s name, not mine.