The Dublin Township Poor House sat on the crest of the hill.
Large galvanized metal tubes clutched its stone walls
Like the limbs of a giant bug,
Sliding-board fire escapes for the elderly residents.
From their high-back wooden chairs, gray-haired people
Watched the inevitable advance of row after row of new houses,
Slowly marching across the open farmland
Like the incremental advance of years across their lives.
The Poor House outlived the town that built it.
And some of the gray-haired people outlived the Poor House;
Its site is now a high school for row house children
Whose grandparents live in retirement communities.
The true story of Cheryl Pierson Cuccio who made headlines in 1986 and her husband Rob Cuccio. Cheryl was abused sexually and physically and Rob died for 43 minutes on Cheryl's 43rd birthday.
We Will Stone Him is a raw, unfiltered trauma memoir about surviving childhood abuse, emotional manipulation, and the lifelong wounds that follow. This true story marks the beginning of the Rising From The Ashes Trilogy, John Gambacorta and his survi
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