Ghost
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Comment from w.j.debi
What a terrible way to grow up. So much fear and uncertainty should not belong to a child, and het so many grow up that way. What happens behind closed doors is so often ignored by others because they don't want to deal with it.
This is well-written as you lead us through the torture and the coping mechanisms of the young protagonist (your younger self) and your sisters.
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2023
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What a terrible way to grow up. So much fear and uncertainty should not belong to a child, and het so many grow up that way. What happens behind closed doors is so often ignored by others because they don't want to deal with it.
This is well-written as you lead us through the torture and the coping mechanisms of the young protagonist (your younger self) and your sisters.
Comment Written 04-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2023
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Such insight you show And you're a review which I appreciate greatly! Thank you again for reading. Always happy to receive your review and wish you the best thanks again!
Comment from Liz O'Neill
This is true for me too: " Sifting through my memories is a dangerous place to be." What a great metaphor. We know these people. My 7 years of therapy got me out of the this habit":
A very wise person said to me (if you'll excuse the rather gross expression)," How about this for the twist....my mother ran away up the street to teach us something. She was gone 1/2 hour and was sitting down cellar listening to her little ones about 3 & 4 sobbing hysterically: ":Mother gives us the silent treatment thinking it appropriate for the grievous sin of running away. " I have so much of this to comment on. I can't fill your page. I feel like I need to take it a bit at a time. This would be too much for you to read. It sounds like you might have had a good relationship with your father. In reading my autobiography, you'll see I did not. I'll stop here now.
Great job
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2023
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This is true for me too: " Sifting through my memories is a dangerous place to be." What a great metaphor. We know these people. My 7 years of therapy got me out of the this habit":
A very wise person said to me (if you'll excuse the rather gross expression)," How about this for the twist....my mother ran away up the street to teach us something. She was gone 1/2 hour and was sitting down cellar listening to her little ones about 3 & 4 sobbing hysterically: ":Mother gives us the silent treatment thinking it appropriate for the grievous sin of running away. " I have so much of this to comment on. I can't fill your page. I feel like I need to take it a bit at a time. This would be too much for you to read. It sounds like you might have had a good relationship with your father. In reading my autobiography, you'll see I did not. I'll stop here now.
Great job
Comment Written 04-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2023
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I think we have much in common. I never knew my father only the terrible stepfather.
My heart and memory goes out to you knowing the pain and isolation as you do. There is much to go through Is when sifting through memories and trying to understand. Not a comfortable place where the sun shines and the ripples in the pond cease.. Thank you for your insightful review. And for identifying the things that I've written and acquaint them to yourself. I hope that it helps. I hope that helps anyone really thank you again for stopping by and having a read. I appreciate it very much. I hope your evening is great and good luck to you! Chat soon!
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Yes, I see healing come to several front taking in what you write.
Comment from Ric Myworld
Many scars hidden beneath our skin's imperfections, deeper cuts than those on soft tissue. Everlasting and never healing, just masked by our fake smiles and the need to move on. Thanks for sharing another fine chapter. Wish I had a six.
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2023
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Many scars hidden beneath our skin's imperfections, deeper cuts than those on soft tissue. Everlasting and never healing, just masked by our fake smiles and the need to move on. Thanks for sharing another fine chapter. Wish I had a six.
Comment Written 04-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2023
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Thank you again, Ric for stopping in and reading and I thank you too, for your incredible insight and your kind comments! Many of us live through similar things. It's what we do with that matters. How do we employ it in our daily lives or not? Once again thank you I hope your day is grand!
Comment from royowen
Sometimes our abuse leads us to the light of not becoming our environment, to copy our abusers, not be the antithesis of abuse, but be loving, caring, gracious, a beacon rather than a battering ram, reflecting our environment, beautifully written, Lea, it will be interesting reading your story, well done, blessings Roy
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2023
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Sometimes our abuse leads us to the light of not becoming our environment, to copy our abusers, not be the antithesis of abuse, but be loving, caring, gracious, a beacon rather than a battering ram, reflecting our environment, beautifully written, Lea, it will be interesting reading your story, well done, blessings Roy
Comment Written 04-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2023
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I thank you, Roy. I appreciate your kind words and your insight as well. You always have valuable things to say!
This is part of an auto bio that I'm writing called "Ghost". The chapters are currently a little bit out of order. However, 1 to 4 I believe are together. It's a hard write but one that needs to be done. I believe and if it touches one soul for the better I have succeeded.
I hope that you have the best day!
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Yes, we should learn from wrong, not perpetuate it, well done Lea
Comment from Debbie D'Arcy
Leah, your writing just gets better and better as you write about these horrors of your childhood. It's as if you're developing much more of an inner control and discipline which in turns helps you to convey your feeling and emotions with even greater force and clarity. In short, it's a superb piece of writing that strikes at the nerve of the reader, leaving a mix of extreme anger and frustration that this behaviour was allowed to go on as long as it did. I want to blame your mother but, then, we all know about coercive relationships and how she was probably being as controlled and intimidated as you and your sisters were. Secondly I want to kill your stepfather but that's not something I'm going to be able to do:( When you shouted out FUCK YOU, you spoke on behalf of your reader, you know that. But something else, I've read many of your posts in the past and I feel very strongly that your enhanced skill at writing now and your ability to express your thoughts and emotions with such cohesion and lucidity is empowering you, day by day, to purge yourself of this blight and move on. I sincerely hope so. Debbie
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2023
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Leah, your writing just gets better and better as you write about these horrors of your childhood. It's as if you're developing much more of an inner control and discipline which in turns helps you to convey your feeling and emotions with even greater force and clarity. In short, it's a superb piece of writing that strikes at the nerve of the reader, leaving a mix of extreme anger and frustration that this behaviour was allowed to go on as long as it did. I want to blame your mother but, then, we all know about coercive relationships and how she was probably being as controlled and intimidated as you and your sisters were. Secondly I want to kill your stepfather but that's not something I'm going to be able to do:( When you shouted out FUCK YOU, you spoke on behalf of your reader, you know that. But something else, I've read many of your posts in the past and I feel very strongly that your enhanced skill at writing now and your ability to express your thoughts and emotions with such cohesion and lucidity is empowering you, day by day, to purge yourself of this blight and move on. I sincerely hope so. Debbie
Comment Written 04-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2023
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Thank you, Debbie, thank you so much. Your support means a lot to me, really it does. Your comments too are very insightful indeed, and right on the money!
Definitely, my writing is a 2 way street. Want to help me sift through it all and finally put it away. It takes the power away when I write about it or talk about it. Second reason of course, is that others may learn from my experience. Others may take a lesson or an idea that creates good, I am content and glad to have done so. We do come out of it in the end. Not without our scars, though and not without the anger and pain. Thank you again. I appreciate your thorough review and your specific way of expressing it. I appreciate you have a great day!
Comment from Rachelle Allen
This is such a hard book to read, but it's a NECESSARY one to read because no adult should allow any child to suffer this way. As disgusted as I am with your mother and step-father, I am even angrier with the adults who pretended they saw nothing. Ugh.
Thank goodness for the strength of mind and belief in yourself you held onto. That's what saved your life and --hopefully-- your sisters' lives, as well. (I'm praying they made it out, too.)
You write with such a ferocity of spirit, Leah. I can sooo see tough, scrappy, plucky little you standing up to these atrocities and using your writing gift as the means to share your story. As I said, it's one that NEEDS to be heard.
xoxoxo
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reply by the author on 04-Oct-2023
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This is such a hard book to read, but it's a NECESSARY one to read because no adult should allow any child to suffer this way. As disgusted as I am with your mother and step-father, I am even angrier with the adults who pretended they saw nothing. Ugh.
Thank goodness for the strength of mind and belief in yourself you held onto. That's what saved your life and --hopefully-- your sisters' lives, as well. (I'm praying they made it out, too.)
You write with such a ferocity of spirit, Leah. I can sooo see tough, scrappy, plucky little you standing up to these atrocities and using your writing gift as the means to share your story. As I said, it's one that NEEDS to be heard.
xoxoxo
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Comment Written 04-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2023
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I sooooo appreciate your support more than you know. All my life I've questioned my own decisions. Because I couldn't use my background as a basis for what to do only what not to do.
Being a parent was sometimes like flinging around in the dark. Hoping I make the right decisions. For understands the things that I am saying. It's like a bright light for me. A big Ellie Dewey spotlight shining through my life. You have given that I thank you very much!
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You seem to have a magical something-or-other about you, Leah. I find you remarkable in that, despite the circumstances of your formative years, you knew, "somehow" that it wasn't right and that there was something else, better, that awaited you, if you could just outlast your childhood when you were not in a position of power. That was an enormous gift you were given, and I am so loving seeing it blossom in you in the form of giving to others. You are doing something special here, and I applaud you so very much. I will write to many, many of my friends on here and encourage them to fan you...not because I'm doing a "good deed," but rather because I know you can enrich their lives with your words, and they would love that experience. You'd actually be helping them.
I feel very lucky that our paths have crossed. xo
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I am truly honored, truly. There are no words. This time the English language comes woefully short. Thank you
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xoxox
Just as life delivers some blows, Leah, it also delivers lots of beauty. We can be that for each other. xo
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Yes that's a perfect and wonderful idea!
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xoxo
Comment from JT traveller
Powerful, honest and raw. You have such an ability to succinctly express emotions which cannot be easy for you to share. Thank you for opening up. It not only heals you. Jacqueline xx
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2023
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Powerful, honest and raw. You have such an ability to succinctly express emotions which cannot be easy for you to share. Thank you for opening up. It not only heals you. Jacqueline xx
Comment Written 04-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2023
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Thank you, Jacqueline. I appreciate you and your support is difficult but I know that in the end it will be a rewarding thing. Great guidance more than you know. I thank you and appreciate you. And I hope your day is amazing!
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Comment from JSD
Oh Lea. This is too painful to read. The shocks and the hurt inflicted on little children are so traumatic and horrifying. I do hope you're ok and that writing these things down helps. Much love. John x
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reply by the author on 04-Oct-2023
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Oh Lea. This is too painful to read. The shocks and the hurt inflicted on little children are so traumatic and horrifying. I do hope you're ok and that writing these things down helps. Much love. John x
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Comment Written 04-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 04-Oct-2023
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Thank you again, John, yes, these things were terrible. Yes, it was a nightmare to listen. It took me a long time to wrap my head around. The fact that these things weren't because of me because of them so much was the mind games and manipulations. But I have come to myself and realize and know what is right and what is wrong and so I write regardless. I've whether they approve or not. Thank you again john enjoy your day!