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Praise the Lord,

0 my soul; all my inmost being, praise His holy name.

(Psalm 103:1, NIV)

I was about five years old when I got sent on a bus to residential school. I don't remember much before that, and I don't remember much about the school either.

I stayed at the residential school until it burned down when I was 13 or 14. That was the year I started drinking.

When I got home from residential school, I was sent to a training school because I was a minor with a drinking problem. The training school was in Toronto (about 1200 miles from my home in Red Lake, Ontario). I stayed at the scho...