David’s mother had got divorced and was working as the right hand assistant to a nightclub manager, but her salary wasn’t enough to support her three children. “She was working in a bar where women started to work when they were 15 years old, they danced naked and sometimes entertained the clients dancing for them or wearing short dresses, but they weren’t prostitutes”.
David’s two older sisters went to live with their uncle and aunt, and because he was the youngest his mother took him to Kalungan. She only returned once to visit him.