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August 26, 2007

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Today’s Stories

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Twins by Birth

Lynne Stevenson

Story written in answer to Carol Roach’s Story – A Family Legacy of Abuse

      You are about the third person, the other two being college professors, who has made the comment that I should write a novel. It could be about how not to raise children and how some people are better off never having children in the first place...If you want, you can add it to the newsletter. Maybe somebody else will recognize that they are not alone and things will finally make sense to them. Abusers have a funny way of twisting things around to make it seem like the abusees are the ones who are wrong. God, I wish I lived closer to you. Even though I can't drink anymore because of type 2 diabetes, we'd have to go out and have a few over this one...LOL...

       All my life my mother told me that I was crazy and would eventually end up in a rubber room somewhere before it was over. I think a lot of her problems stemmed from the fact that she and her twin sister were born 5 years after her mother lost her first baby and they were constantly told that they were mistakes and had not been wanted. My grandmother was 22 years old when she lost her first baby to SIDS when he was 5 days old and I know she never got over it. My grandfather was 40 something years older than her and he had grown children from another marriage when they married. I don't think he intended to have more kids at his age and he was not the typical doting father he should have been. I don't think she had any idea of what she was getting herself into because when she married him, her family thought he had money. They soon found out differently when he got sick and lost his store. My mother and aunt used to deliver papers before they went to school when they were 6 years old. At age 7 my mother was hit by a car while on her paper route and they thought she was going to die. There were a few Christmases where they went to bed hungry and woke up to nothing under the tree because there was no money for extras after they bought my grandfather's medicines. I can see now how this warped the hell out of her. Now you have some idea of what I dealt with growing up and still fight unconsciously on a daily basis...

      I know that we are related somewhere down the line! Stories like your family's help others to realize that they were not the only ones who missed out on the "Brady Bunch" ideal and had to deal with the reality of abuse and neglect. 

Hugs from the SC loony bin,

Lynne Stevenson

pugMOM37@aol.com

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My Name is Linda Ann Henry

Linda Ann Henry

My name is Linda Ann Henry. I just read Carol Roach story and I would like to share. The year was 2001.  I had nerve damage. My father and I went to see my therapeutic.  Inside that room was a secret kept from me for 51 years. My father looked me in the eyes and told me I was adopted. He said I was not his and he never wanted a child.  I looked at the man I knew since birth, and said "but daddy everyone said I look like you". He gave me another shock, everyone knew about my adoption; my aunts and uncles, my cousin's, all the people in my uptown Manhattan apartment, everyone in my neighborhood. My mother burnt my adoption papers when I was six because when I was playing I found them. She lied and told me a story and because I was so young I forgot about it.

So when my father told me, I lost my identity. He kept from me who my birth parents were. I was lost in adoption. I went on the search of my life to find my family. I had to trick Penn and told them I wanted my mother's birth paper, under the name which was on my real birth paper "Conaway". In 2003 I found mother and my five brothers and sisters. Only my sister Christina talks to me and we help each other. In 2005, I found my birth father. He wanted a DNA. I was his child and as much as he could he loved me.

The same year my father who raised me died yet even at the end he would not tell me he loved me.

I write on all my poems "Do you remember me", because when I was growing up, people seem to forget I was around. I would like to talk to Carol. At lease she had children who loved her and a loving husband.

In sickness or in health anywhere I go I go alone.  

Can You Keep A Secret

Linda Ann Henry

Can you keep a secret

There are things I must not ask,

How can I help it

They are part of my unknown past

Are you part of me

Am I part of you,

I loved you but I wonder

Who's name do I come under

I am a secret

I look beyond my sight,

I wish I just knew who I am

I wish it with all my might

Can you hold my hand

Can you help me stand,

Why is there much to know

Why did you keep it so

Can you keep a secret

I am grown, I must stay calm

I will stay within my soul, I will let no one know

I will no longer cry

How can I forever more ask why

Linda Ann Henry

Do you remember me

The people's poet

linda11231949@aol.com

"Life can only be understood backwoods,

but it must be lived forwards"

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Poetry Corner

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 Heavenly Thoughts

David Fox

As I look up in the sky,

I can't help thinking of the Man Up High,

How does His mind work?

How does it tick?

Does He really help the sick?

Does He hear everyone say grace?

How can He be every place?

These questions I wonder and many others,

But don't worry my sisters and brothers,

Let the answers come what may,

Each and every time you pray.

More poems to come in the near future.  Thanks for considering these.

Your friend,

David Fox

davidirafox@yahoo.com

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 God Exists in Angels

David Fox

God exists in angels

They do everything they should

They spread love, peace and

Happiness and all that is good.

Yes, God exists in angels,

I believe it to be true,

I hope that someday

I'll become an angel too!

David Fox

davidirafox@yahoo.com

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 God Loves You

David Fox

Give thanks

Outcry blessings

Do unto Him, for He is the

Lord, who

Outpours the respect we deserve

Vindicates

Everyone who confesses their

Sins and makes them pure once again.

Your level of acceptance

On how much you pray, but

Understand He is a loving and forgiving God.

 
 David Fox

davidirafox@yahoo.com

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