with a confirmed Nazi sympathizer.
All of the staff were ex-police -- interesting --
and ex-probation officers.
The man who ran it was an ex-army officer.
Every time I had a visit by a person who I did not know
who would feed me grapes, once every three months,
I was strip-searched.
That home was full of young boys who were on remand
for things like murder.
And this was the preparation that I was being given
after 17 years as a child of the state.
I have to tell this story.
I have to tell it, because there was no one
to put two and two together.
I slowly became aware that I knew nobody
that knew me for longer than a year.
See, that's what family does.
It gives you reference points.
I'm not defining a good family from a bad family.
I'm just saying that you know when your birthday is
by virtue of the fact that somebody tells you when your birthday is,