This is how I escaped.
I was Sixteen years old and my time was divided between doing unpaid work for the church, working as a cage-cleaner-cum-unofficial-surgeon for a local veterinarian (I could handle everything but the highly contagious parvo cases. Excising a pair of testes is nothing next to cleaning up a fine mist of foul-scented doggie dysentery. It's an unforgettable odour, high and rank, and, to make it worse, the survival rate for the animals is minimal), taking co... cheap wedding veils