My first 65 years on earth centered on the diaries I kept when my life crashed at 50.
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I had just entered the Twilight Zone where reality did not exist and nothing was as it seemed. I was destined to be there for a long time, in a limbo my mind could not perceive. I was in a No-mans-land covered by swamps and darkness with no exits available. I had more baggage than a 757 and it was piled on top of me pushing me further into the rotting materials that was my unexamined past. I WAS STUCK. I did not know where it was all coming from, but it was real, and fear and angst enveloped me like a tight glove. I was living from day to day, from hour to hour, sometimes from second to second, and I had no idea of how to get out of this quagmire. I could only feel the pain and anger, and it overshadowed all other feelings and thought processes.
Maria, raised in the Mafia and educated by the gangs of New York, is hunting the man who killed her Akalina, and she will kill anyone who gets in her way.
Raised on Black and White TV is Carol Denise Mitchell’s intimate, unflinching memoir of growing up in a world where television became both a refuge and a mirror. Through the glow of classic black‑and‑white programs, she learned about fami
