At Montague House, the children's home that housed 20 abandoned kids including me, oral story-telling was considered recreation. In between fighting with each other (we did that a lot) we would sometimes sit around & tell each other stories, recite poems & nursery rhymes. Most of which I enjoyed except one...."There was a little girl who had a little curl..."  Based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow this nursery rhyme always gave me the creeps, so when I heard it again recently I decided I would re-write the ending....

                                                    Maureen Tuohy