Hi Claude, thankyou for your kind words...Yes, I was subjected to physical & psychological abuse meted out to me by a bullying brute of a man named Archdeacon...Between 1961 & 1963 aged between 7 & 9 he thrashed me many times with his cane, why?
Well, I was & still I am a left-handed person...
Archdeacon would come-up on the blind-side of me & lash-out at me on many occasions, striking me on the left-hand; the wooden pen & ink would go anywhere...On occasions, he would haul me out in front of the class & give me 'six-of-the-best,' while shouting at me saying such things as "you've got the devil in you" &, "you're no good!"
I remember going home some days with my hand & wrist black & blue where he'd struck me with the cane...I was terrified of him which led to me playing truant a lot...!