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Eilleen Twain had a hard childhood in Timmins.
Her parents earned little and there was often a shortage of food in the household.
Eilleen did not confide her situation to school authorities, fearing they might break up the family.
In the remote, rugged community, she learned to hunt and to chop wood.
Sharon and Jerry's marriage was at times stormy, and from a young age, Eilleen witnessed violent fights between them.
Sharon struggled with bouts of depression.
In the summer of 1979, while Jerry was at work, at Eilleen's insistence, her mother drove the rest of the family south to a Toronto homeless shelter for assistance.
Sharon returned to Jerry with the children in 1981.
In Timmins, Twain started singing at bars at the age of eight to try to make ends meet, often earning twenty dollars between midnight and one in the morning performing for remaining customers after the bar had finished serving.
Although she expressed a dislike for singing in those bars, Twain believes that this was her own kind of performing arts school on the road.
She has said of the ordeal, " My deepest passion was music and it helped.
There were moments when I thought ' I hate this '.
I hated going into bars and being with drunks.
But I loved the music and so I survived ".
Twain wrote her first songs at the age of ten, Is Love a Rose and Just Like the Storybooks which were fairy tales in rhyme.
She states that the art of creating, of actually writing songs, " was very different from performing them and became progressively important ".

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