You think you know, but you have no idea. This is the true life story of Ogre Crotchet.
Ogre Crotchet was born Sarah Lee Jacobs to Ester and Mayer Jacobs on February 30, 1883. Ogre grew up in the (at the time) adequately sized apartment in Lower Manhattan where she had been brought into the world. Being the child of a piano-factory worker, Ogre knew, as soon as competent thoughts escapaded across her brain (which was many, many years later), that she wanted something more from life, she had a dream (of some sort).
No more than a year later a brother was born to Ogre Crotchet. David Ann Jacobs quickly put a stop to any nurturing attention Ogre's parents had ever offered to her. It was then apparent that Ester and Mayer had never hoped for anything but a son. Perhaps it was the sad state in which they were living (a boy could work and bring more money to the family); perhaps it was that Ester had a need to coddle a boy into a caring, sensitive man (this need stemming from her experience with the abusive father she had grown up with); either way little care was left over for Ogre, a mere one-year-old girl, who, by the age of two, had learned to wash her own clothing, since no one else would.
Rumor has it that the Jacobs saw too much 'potential' in David to allow him to work, or spend his day having his hair combed by Ester, so the boy was sent to school at age five. The same year David started school, another addition to the family had arrived. Leslie Jo Jacobs was born, soon called 'Les'. By this point in Ogre's life, the only attention she received was when something was needed of her. She had been performing household chores since age three, and now that further funds were needed to support the family, Ogre acquired the opportunity to fulfill that dream (of some sort). Little Sarah Jacobs would become a lace-maker.
Ogre Crotchet was born Sarah Lee Jacobs to Ester and Mayer Jacobs on February 30, 1883. Ogre grew up in the (at the time) adequately sized apartment in Lower Manhattan where she had been brought into the world. Being the child of a piano-factory worker, Ogre knew, as soon as competent thoughts escapaded across her brain (which was many, many years later), that she wanted something more from life, she had a dream (of some sort).
No more than a year later a brother was born to Ogre Crotchet. David Ann Jacobs quickly put a stop to any nurturing attention Ogre's parents had ever offered to her. It was then apparent that Ester and Mayer had never hoped for anything but a son. Perhaps it was the sad state in which they were living (a boy could work and bring more money to the family); perhaps it was that Ester had a need to coddle a boy into a caring, sensitive man (this need stemming from her experience with the abusive father she had grown up with); either way little care was left over for Ogre, a mere one-year-old girl, who, by the age of two, had learned to wash her own clothing, since no one else would.
Rumor has it that the Jacobs saw too much 'potential' in David to allow him to work, or spend his day having his hair combed by Ester, so the boy was sent to school at age five. The same year David started school, another addition to the family had arrived. Leslie Jo Jacobs was born, soon called 'Les'. By this point in Ogre's life, the only attention she received was when something was needed of her. She had been performing household chores since age three, and now that further funds were needed to support the family, Ogre acquired the opportunity to fulfill that dream (of some sort). Little Sarah Jacobs would become a lace-maker.