From Las Vegas to Alaska, Bobbie perservered through multiple marriages, widowhood, accepted her son's homosexuality, survived domestic violence & found comfrot in the values she learned in her father's house.
Read the autobiography of Bobbie Bolton Burnett "My Father's House." Born a preacher's kid in southern Indiana, she was raised with a solid foundation of morals and values. But leaving home, she took many paths away from that foundation. It took many years for her to come back and take strength from the values learned in her father's house.
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"Six months later, we moved to Clovis where we stayed with a friend until we found a house to buy. It was at this friend's house where I suffered the worst beating of all. That's when the lying began. My sister lived in Clovis and I saw her quite often. When she asked what happened I told her a story about falling off the porch. I wore high collars to hide the marks around my neck where Butch had choked me until I couldn't breathe and then he stopped."
This book has been eight years in the making. It is mostly a jumble of thoughts written down in old spiral notebooks and hidden in the bottom drawer underneath various manuals for software packages and hardware long since turned obsolete.
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