Within three days of me wanting to give up writing my story, devastating abuse happened or I heard the news about it. Read below.
1) I was talking with an online friend named Cowboy Bill. He informed me about his friend who was a police officer. The officer called Cowboy Bill and said, "A 4-year-old child overheard her mother and mother’s boyfriend arguing. The little girl went to ask the mother’s boyfriend please stop fighting. She was trying to get his attention by tugging on his shirt. He backhanded the little girl, which sent her young body flying through the air like a ragdoll. She landed at the bottom of the stairs. She did not survive. Cowboy Bill came back to yahoo chat informing me of what happened.
He replied, "See, you do need to do your story."
I had to leave the computer to mourn for this young soul.
2)The next time I gave up writing my book this happened within a matter of days. About a year earlier, a friend, Molly, from Netfriendships had seen some of my writings on my page. She asked me to speak with her daughter, Stephanie, who was being abused severely by Stephanie's boyfriend.
I called and spoke with Stephanie. I tried to convince her to leave her boyfriend. I told her, if she did not leave her abusive boyfriend, he would kill her within a year. Close to a year later, Molly contacted me to tell me her daughter, Stephanie, had died. Her daughter’s boyfriend stabbed Stephanie over 80 times. I had given up on this book a few days before she notified me of the horrific news. Molly asked to let her friends, at a social network site, know the disturbing news. She gave me the newspaper link, so if anyone doubted the horrifying news, the link would prove truthful.
3)A woman went inside a local Texaco station. The mom said to the clerk, "My car was stolen with my five-year-old son in the back seat. An APB (all-points bulletin) and an Amber Alert was issued. They located Geontae Glass inside the family’s garage. It was too late to save this precious five-year-old boy. He was deceased inside the same vehicle his mother had claimed stolen. He died from blows to his stomach for bringing home a bad report card. The mother’s boyfriend was the abuser. It involves as well the mother since she helped her boyfriend cover up this heinous crime. https://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/update-geontae-glass-murder-2/
It is bad enough that Geontae Glass was murdered, but the man who killed him had served time in prison. The governor of Alabama at the time pardoned him, so he could tend to his son... Not Geontae, but a different boy prior,
I am very glad that you continued to write your book. Sometimes we are guided by events because we are meant to do things. Your life experiences guided you on a path to complete your book. Our world needs people like you. People brave enough to stand up and speak up. I applaud you.
Hi. Thank you. I pray you will complete your book as well. We need more people like you as well. Just a little writing per day may end up with the final draft of a book. Smile...