[brush unfair safe]
She keeps the hairbrush in a shoebox. Mother used to use it on both of us - to brush our hair, and to spank our butts when we were "ornery" as she would say. So our hair is tangled up in the bristles, hers and mine, as well as a lot of memories, good and bad. I'm not sure how I feel about the whole thing - part of me thinks it's unfair that she gets to keep the brush, when it's mine as well as hers (and after all, I was on the scene first), but then a lot of what Mother did to us wasn't fair either, so there you are. Probably better for her to keep it anyway, at least with her it'll be safe.
She keeps the hairbrush in a shoebox. Mother used to use it on both of us - to brush our hair, and to spank our butts when we were "ornery" as she would say. So our hair is tangled up in the bristles, hers and mine, as well as a lot of memories, good and bad. I'm not sure how I feel about the whole thing - part of me thinks it's unfair that she gets to keep the brush, when it's mine as well as hers (and after all, I was on the scene first), but then a lot of what Mother did to us wasn't fair either, so there you are. Probably better for her to keep it anyway, at least with her it'll be safe.