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Plagued by religious friction, violent fights and a belief, “the grass is always greener”, my peripatetic parents dragged us five children in search of the next great farm deal. From upstate New York to the Mississippi Delta, across the hills of Ohio and West Virginia their dreams led us forward to disillusion and defeat.
A middle child, unwanted from birth and over-looked while growing up, I learned the surprising lesson that sometimes being the least loved can be your salvation.
The story begins with my memory in 1947 when I was three years old. We were packing the car and a farm truck for our first of 19 moves. This is a story based on fact but inadvertently altered by the passage of years and experiences.
I am Jeanine, a middle child, who remembers too much too clearly. Undone by five children, lack of money and a combative relationship, my parents marry, divorce and remarry each other. In my own voice, I tell the story of an upstate New York farm family torn by religious friction and violent fights, experiencing happy times, crises and failures. My mother, a Seventh-day Adventist convert, uses religion as a weapon and metes out extreme punishments. At four, I'm forced to watch while my six-year-old sister and seven-year-old brother spank her. That night I dream the rats come into my | |  | | From Hand-Me-Downs to Designer Gowns
Set in New England over the past two decades, the story shares quotidian life while owning a small business, transports your half-way around the world during trips to Europe and the Far East, walks you through a trial from before the shooting until the sentencing, and provides an amazing but true documentation of tripling their retirement portfolio while making minimum required withdrawals.
| |  | | Maggie's Mirage
Hiding a vital secret and climbing the social ladder is no small task for the poor daughter of a railroad man. But no one escapes life's lessons, not even Maggie.
Born to a poor Catholic family near Boston, Maggie Kearney rises from rags to riches, using those who can help, and discarding all who cannot. Eager to bury her poverty-stricken past with its shameful secret, she lets nothing stand in her way, not family, not love, and certainly not honesty. Loving her too much is her husband Harry Logan who struggles to adhere to his grandmother's teachings of honesty and integrity while raising a family and climbing the corporate ladder. Against the background of the stock market’s frenzied rise through the 1990s, Maggie and Harry share their pass | |  | | Unworthy
'Unworthy' unveils the tragedy of religious hypocrisy and the damage done to our mental and emotional health when doctrine is delivered without compassion and love.
In a small town northwest of Boston, Pastor Keller’s three grown children are caught in a web of secrets and murder. With time to uncover the truth running out, egos collide and love struggles to survive as Detective D’nardo delves into their sad and twisted lives. While one sister sacrifices herself to save the other, their brother tries to protect the family he once believed was ideal. Part of the truth lies hidden in a family Bible. But who has the key? Part of the truth comes softly in a child’s song. Who will sing it? &n |
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