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Hi! This is the next part of the story, it's described the orphanage where the main character grew up.

St. Patrick Orphanage

I was born July 17th 1985 at Albert Memorial Hospital. My mother name is Karen Louis Smyth. That is all I ever known of my mom. I later tried to find out more information about who she was and why did she do it, but I don’t think I will tell that story now. She left the hospital soon after she laboured me and she also left me a letter, which I didn’t know of its existence until I turned 16.

I was brought up by the people at St. Patrick Orphanage, the same people that gave me my name, Michael James Smyth. My name was picked by the good book, the bible; Michael, the archangel who defended humanity and casted Satan out of paradise; James, the first of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, one of only three apostles whom Jesus selected to bear witness to his Transfiguration. I spent my earliest 16 years of life there at the orphanage.

St. Patrick orphanage was first established in December 1944 during the high of War World 2. Even though, Australia was not heavily involved with the war, there was a great influx of orphans from Europe whose parent who killed during the war, in particularly British Empire. Those orphans were transferred to Australia to establishments such as St. Patrick orphanage and then adopted to their foster family. This movement was a treaty formed between the Commonwealth countries, between British Empire and Australia, New Zealand. Initially, St. Patrick orphanage was mostly funded by the Australian government and a lesser proportions from the church’s charities. The orphans typically didn’t stay very long, they would soon be adopted by couples who wanted children, some were happy stories and some was not so happy ones. After the end of World War 2, the stream of orphan from Europe ceased and St. Patrick orphanage‘s operation eventually came to a unfortunate end. Until 26th July 1979, St. Patrick orphanage was reopened by the church because it was deemed necessity to do so. It was a sad thing that at the end of the great 20th Century, humans’ life was never easier than before, food supply is in abundant, electricity and technology provide the ease, convenient of daily life and parent abandoned their own children.

Being built at during the 1940s, the orphanage took an old and respectable look. The house’s exterior wall was made by stone, its built was meant to last. The architecture was a resemblance of the early structures of the Victorian house and church. St. Patrick stood solemnly on a highland region in the north east outskirt of Adelaide city; the building structure has the shape of an inverted T ( ___I___ ). The East and West wing are children’s beds, in the middle of the T-junction is the hall and front entrant, the north wing was the principle office, kitchen and staff rooms. There is also another entrant at the end of north wing. I must say it wasn’t a particularly fire safety building for the children, however thank to god there was no fire broke out during its operation days.



Stay tuned - the next part is Childhood, and how the main character meet Dave.


PS. BTW my grammar is really bad, if would be a great thing if someone can fix it. Thanks!