By that time, she had become a leading figure within the community, well respected, and sought after for her learning and frank common sense. - MDK It has been a long time since I walked on Earth, but there are some things I recall most vividly, and I have decided to enter them into memory. My life at that time was only beginning. I was a mere girl living on my father’s farm. The winter was long the year that my Father died, cold and wet, and I spent most days huddled in my cot in our dark two-roomed hut. I worked and tended to my father. He had been ill for a long time, slowly weakening. I had my daily chores, sweeping the dirt floor, bringing in firewood from the forest, raking hay for the horses, cooking, all the time wet and cold. Not much else happened until I was sent away. At that time, almost every girl of my age was sent from her home for two, maybe three years. We usually went to live with a relative in another village, or out with the forest herds where we were to experience a different way of living and perhaps find a husband.
