Libby continues to come to Torey's room to pick up Lori's homework, even though Torey has told her previously that Lori does not have any homework that would come from her class. Libby ends up asking Torey some tough questions about Lori. She asks if Lori is retarded, to which Torey replies that she is not, and that she is still good at many other things but that she just has a hard time with reading. Torey gets Libby to tell her what REALLY happened the day of the breakdown. Libby tells Torey that Mrs. Thorsen was making Lori read in front of everyone in the class, even though she knew she wasn't able to read very well. Not only did she do this, but she gave her one of the books from the higher reading groups. When Lori couldn't read it, she gave her an easier book. She continued to giver her "babier and babier" books. By the time Lori was given a book that she could read, she was so nervous that she threw up. Libby told Torey that Mrs. Thorsen never even said that she was sorry. She also told Torey that sometimes she (Libby) spits at Mrs. Thorsen, and says that someday she is going to spit in her face.
Libby also reveals more information about their original parents, and how her father and mother used to beat both of them but that he would beat Lori until she completely stopped crying. She also told Torey about a time when her father broke her (Libby's) arm, and it was so bad that they had to go to the hospital. He told her to tell the doctor that she fell down the stairs. Then she told Torey that someday she was going to find her real father and kill him for what he did to Lori.
This chapter was really sad to read. It is interesting to her the perspective of the sibling of someone with a disability. I think that often times these children are overlooked during the whole process, and are expected to always "be fine" no matter what happens. We have to remember how a child's situation is affecting everyone around them as well.
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