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Little Black Book For Small Black Girl
May I run from the past what if its hidden in little black book the truth lies. The tell of my entire life. It can cost me my entire fortunate but tell me this I may need to save my family living in homeless shelter. Crying every night out to Jesus christ. Protects my sisters while they in the foster home. The staff members told lies. On my parents like my momma was doing drugs, and she was abusive to my sisters. It turns out she was lying cause she wanted to see my momma crying, and my daddy lost control that entire night. Cops was ready to arrest my parents. My momma was kicking up her legs ready to fight for her daughters. My pops had to hold her back. This little black book can change my entire life. I got to get it right. Make no mistakes that I am going to take what mines. Word on my mother I got your back. Millions of dollars is in this little black book. I can taste revenge on my tongue. I swear to God she mess over the wrong family. Once karma comes around it's not going to be playing with her at all. By the way her name is Lorraine. My momma can beat her so bad she will have her walking on cane. Little black book let me follow all the rules of instruction that apply. May I achieve my goals hopefully there be no bumps in the roads. I am trying get this deal close. At the same time I need closure. God is my witness all of this bitterness driving me insane. I am not the same person as before. Little black book has change my life for the better. Now I am sitting on all this money. It's time to come home my sisters. Our momma miss yall including pops. I never saw my parents in so much pain until that day had came. My entire family will never forget it. How homeless shelter sew over my parents. In every way possible. All because one of the staff members was jealous of the income my parents was receiving. More than their entire pay check. Little black book came in handy. Put my entire family back together. It made us closer than ever before. It's no reason to be letting go. I am definitely coming for that entire shelter. Get ready to pay my parents their fair share of money. Law suit coming their way. Little black book reveal my truth of fate of life. Closing down the walls that are trying to crumble upon me. What you do to other people should do under you. For you have sin it's time to face reality. Before the mentality takes over your mind. Losing yourself righteousness without realizing who you really are as person. Careless thoughtless without making an sound out of sight. May you be forgotten. That will never happen cause of the impact you have on life. Fighting your way through battles. Even when you wanted to give up. Something inside of you that shines so bright. Not in the slightest way nobody will cause you to failed. Little black book gives you hope and confidence including strength bury down inside of you. That it didn't seem possible to have such strong faith. Pace yourself relax for now realize to embrace the impact that's coming your way. Turn around look at what's in front of you. The key it's right there to unlock secrets that will be revealed. Be ready to take in the blast of the pass and present. Preparing for the future that has so much more to offer. Living for purpose that's my family. They are my back bone that I live for breathe for, and fight for until my last breath. Nurse me back to health. I swear blood is pouring running down somebody body that mess with my family. I am not murder no but willing to do it. If I feel force to prove my point of view. Little black book come save me my life. Before I lose my mind end up catching an case. Let me slow down the pace. My heart racing beating out of my chest. I am trying to stay calm. May the lord give me the patience. To give me the strength that I am going to need. Get rid of the demons that's trying to take over my mind and soul. Little black book rescue me from my enemies that follows me. I am trying to stay on the right track. While I get this racks of money that's coming my way. I saw my fair share of pain. Life hasn't been the greatest. My family comes before anything else. Like they say blood is thicker than water. The rich only gets richer. While the poor gets poorer. It's up to me to get some of this money, without having any regrets. At the end of this tunnel life only gets better. Its shining bright light above me. I just have to reach out and grab it.
By Tykya Gaston5 years ago in Families
Four pandemic postcards
I. Dear Helen, I learned, as your daughter, that the sorrow that shadowed your beauty and light came in part from being born three months after your father, Antoni, died at age 40 of the Spanish flu, official cause of death pneumonia, in February 1920, at the tail end of the pandemic. It was said that Antoni may have built his own coffin; he was employed at a casket factory. At the time of your birth, your newly widowed mother, Josephine, had two other daughters under three, spoke no English, worked as a maid.
By Marjory Zaik5 years ago in Families
Love It or List It
As a millennial, I don’t have cable TV. It’s not that I can’t afford it (avocado toast isn’t that expensive), it just seems like the vestiges of a bygone era. These days, everything is on demand. You can watch whatever you want, whenever you want, for as long as you want, til you run out of content.
By Lindsay Rae5 years ago in Families
Following My Father
I still attended City College because I needed to finish some required courses in order to get my AA degree. I still took 18 units a semester. I still worked at the Oxford Hotel. I still drove my clunker of a car. Abdul and I still maintained our passionate relationship and interesting lives.
By Caroni Lombard5 years ago in Families
There's Always Money in The Banana Stand
Full of life lessons, crazy family drama, and telenovela levels of plot twists and turns, Arrested Development is truly a show worth binging. From the very first episode, you're thrown into this family's life as the head of the family and the Bluth's real estate development empire, George Bluth, is arrested for stealing millions of dollars and illegally building houses in Iraq for the infamous Saddam Hussein. Quite the story starter, am I right?
By Isla Berry5 years ago in Families
Norway's Breast Feeding Mafia
At the end of July 2019 my wife and I welcomed our son into the world. Apart from the obvious – and I am assuming typical worry and anxiety – it was a “trouble free” and profound experience. The jordmors or in English, the midwives, were amazing. The nurses too, impressive, dedicated, and kind. The women who assisted in the birth of our son, I shall never forget. The majority of caregivers who helped us adjust during the week we spent in the birth ward, they too have left a mark on my life.
By Robert Allen5 years ago in Families
Apostle
She stood on the weathered deck of this house she once loved, where she felt loved, imagining herself younger, wilder. Dancing through the bull dust, down over swatches of grass. The sting on her skin from rolling into the bindi bur that filled in more land than lawn. Lazy days on this deck, giggling at the Apostle birds chatter and play. Images and sounds, the smells, all shifting in the hot winds, contorting into unreliable memories.
By TerriLee Robinson5 years ago in Families
