Sallyport - The Magazine of Rice University - Winter 2002
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Fairy Godmother<br />
<strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2002</strong><br />
VOL.58, NO.2<br />
ight years<br />
as a single woman.<br />
ago, Jamie appeared like a dark,<br />
ominous figure asking to be taken<br />
in. His aunt, Marsha Recknagel,<br />
who teaches creative writing at<br />
<strong>Rice</strong> <strong>University</strong>, knew that by<br />
letting this 16-year-old into her<br />
house, he would destroy the bright<br />
life she had worked so hard to<br />
build. She wanted to be a writer,<br />
and she enjoyed her solitary hours<br />
But Jamie was her brother’s son, and Recknagel could not let her nephew<br />
walk away to become a street kid. Besides, deep down in her heart, she<br />
always knew that someday it would be her turn to try to save this wayward<br />
child. Jamie had a painful history: his half-crazy parents had physically and<br />
mentally abused him to an almost catatonic stage. Over a 10-year period,<br />
they had put him in 26 schools, a boarding school, two mental hospitals,<br />
and a group home.<br />
Recknagel opened the door and let him in.<br />
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