then i was david ruffin and she was the temptations and then i was the pips and she took gladys knight. by that time, sister renata comes in, starts screaming and yelling at us, tells us to hold out our hands and we didtiously and she proceeded to whack them and then told us to turn them over and whacked them again to the point where it was cracking and there was blood an the stinging, and it was so hard and terrible, the pain, and then she had the gall to say, now, go back and finish cleaning. and i said, with what? our feet? da-da-da. and it was crack! she just smacked me across the face and backhanded and it was, i think about like three or four slaps. so it was adding insult to injury and then we had to go and clean the bathroom. and the girl, crazy cindy, started cursing, and sister renata thought it was me. so, i had bloody hands, they are stinging, i am trying to not touch the soap because it's burning, and she takes the soap out of my hands and sticks it into my mouth and tells me i have a potty mouth. >> and you were six? >> i was six. but what was -- see, part of my personali

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