I thought maybe they were a little mad at me because of the fight I had gotten into and they thought if they were to clean me up physically, I might behave better. I had tried to explain about the fight, that they had been picking on someone smaller, but the boy whose knee I had kicked had told his parents and they had called the Home to complain.

"I think they think if I look less like a wild kid, I'll behave less like one, too," I admitted.