Be like Pack
She’s six or seven years old, her name is Alicia, and she spends a lot of time with Sune, an old man now, but once coach of Beartown’s A-team, where she does her best to fire holes in the wall of his house with pucks.
She’s the sort of child who has a terrible life, but not terrible enough to get any help, she’s growing up in a home full of empty kitchen cupboards and clenched fists, but never empty or hard enough for the authorities to remove her.
So Sune’s yard is her refuge, her playground, and Ramona got Teemu to do the best they could a couple of years ago: some black – clad men went to Alica’s home one night when she was asleep, marched into the kitchen and put hockey bag full of equipment on the table, and explain to the adults there that the girl was under the Pack’s protection now.
She’s had considerably fewer black eyes from home since then, and considerably more bruises from the ice rink. And one day she’s going to be best.
Be like Pack from the Fredrick Backman book The Winners, be like him and protect children at all cost.
She’s the sort of child who has a terrible life, but not terrible enough to get any help, she’s growing up in a home full of empty kitchen cupboards and clenched fists, but never empty or hard enough for the authorities to remove her.
So Sune’s yard is her refuge, her playground, and Ramona got Teemu to do the best they could a couple of years ago: some black – clad men went to Alica’s home one night when she was asleep, marched into the kitchen and put hockey bag full of equipment on the table, and explain to the adults there that the girl was under the Pack’s protection now.
She’s had considerably fewer black eyes from home since then, and considerably more bruises from the ice rink. And one day she’s going to be best.
Be like Pack from the Fredrick Backman book The Winners, be like him and protect children at all cost.