00:00A lot of things. I was there until I was 16, got out when I was 16, but a lot of things
00:10happened that us girls went through, you know. It's the fact that we lost our family, you
00:18know. I never met my brothers till I was 16, you know. I don't understand why we lost
00:31them. That's what hurts the most. But like the girls all said, they swear at each other,
00:46you know, with the family, ourselves. Had to make a family, you know. Very, very hard.
00:56And was treated very hard too. We'd be scrubbing floors four o'clock in the morning, cooking,
01:05cleaning, five o'clock, go to school, come home, do the same thing every day. Never had
01:13rest or nothing. We wasn't allowed to talk about Aboriginals. We didn't know Aboriginals.
01:21We didn't know their lives. We just knew our life there. Anything come on about Aboriginals,
01:26matron turned the TV off. Or any of our family come to home, she'd make them go. We sort
01:33of grew up with white people. You can't, I don't believe, you can't say no, sorry or anything.
01:43It's, we've been through it, we've done it, you know. Can't come back in years later and say,
01:49sorry girls, you know, they shouldn't have done it in the first place. That's how I feel about it.
01:55With my mum, they talk about, you know, intergenerational trauma, like what she went
02:02through. It's come back on us as well with our upbringing and how we, you know, we can,
02:07it actually is true, intergenerational trauma, you know, it actually, it is.
02:12Looking at this photo and seeing all them girls and what we went through,
02:17I'm telling you the truth, we went through a lot. They make me strong. Yeah. And bless my family.
02:29But these girls are my things, yeah.
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