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Moments in our Memory 6 years 11 months ago #1466

Jay
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I witnessed a death at a young age and I don’t think I ever recovered from it. It was a boy in the neighborhood. He was riding his bike and a car came out of nowhere and hit him. He flew into the air and I knew he was dead when he hit the ground but his hand was moving for a moment. I still see his hand moving. I don’t know much about the driver I was five or six. I just know the car hit him. I can hear his mother’s screams in my ears still and it pains me.

Marc opened my eyes to my sexuality and I fault it at first, causing a lot of pain. He is much younger than me and also much wiser.

As an adult I have been lucky but what happened to TJ opened my eyes to how hard life is for black people in this country. Just driving down the street is dangerous for them. It was an eye-opener for me like nothing else. I am finally content with the person I love and I couldn’t be happier.

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Moments in our Memory 6 years 11 months ago #1467

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Thanks everyone but I can’t take full credit. Like Mark says, the initial article goes through editing and what you see is the final product which is what you wrote enhanced 100 times. I read it and same damn did I write that?

I did witness a rape. I was in the front seat of a car when I was fifteen and my friend was in the back seat with two of the three guys we were headed home with. My boyfriend was driving, his brother was in the backseat and his brother’s friend. They raped my friend and I jumped out of the car as soon as I could and took off running because I knew I was next. I called my father to pick me up and when he got there I told him what happened, Now this stands out in my mind because all he said was how lucky I was I got away. He didn’t ask me how my friend was. It did something to me. I wanted to call the police but he said no. I cried myself to sleep because I didn’t know if she was dead or what. I wouldn’t speak to my father for weeks. I told my boyfriend I never wanted to see him again and when I saw my friend she said her parents told her not to say anything just like my father did. I realized how little women mattered at that moment and my father never talked to me about why our relationship forever changed. He hasn’t to this day. My boyfriend kept trying to tell me he was sorry and his disgusting brother tried to make me talk to him and I just rolled my eyes and walked away from both of them.

Now I lost respect for my father but gained respect for my mother because a week later officers arrived at school and spoke to my friend. She still had the bruises and tested positive for pregnancy that she aborted thank God! My mother did something about it and went off on my father for handling it the way he did. She even went off on my friend’s mother in church. My friend went to stay with her grandmother and it didn’t break -her she’s a nurse today and her self-esteem is great. My opinion of black men was forever changed and nothing ever repaired it. If my dad reads this I’m sure he’ll be hurt but how we handle tragedies for our children is important like the article says because a parents failure handle a tragedy the right way can actually be worse than the tragedy like it was for me. I needed to see the wrong righted especially by my father. I wonder today what he would have done if it was me. I know he would have done me just like my friends father did her. Look at her like she was dirty and he talked to her bad as well.

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Moments in our Memory 6 years 11 months ago #1468

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Moments in my memory that stand out for me was my husband seeing me when no one else did. I was older and my father said I was going to be a spinster. Jim proved him wrong and then I became pregnant. It was a hard pregnancy and I knew after I gave birth to Rebecca she would be my first and only. My dad made me feel worthless because I was sick a lot but Jim made me feel like a princess. Rebecca was a horrible child I can admit that now and I’m glad Jim was there to put his foot down and make her respect me. We knew early there was a problem and I think the moment I realized she wasn’t normal changed my life. I longed for a son and dreamed of a son like Mark, Luke, and Jay. Sir Paul changed our life as well. Jim met him first and he was the best thing to happen in our lives. My son came and I love him more than life. He was just as broken as we were and we have healed each other. Mom loves you sooo much Jordan.

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Moments in our Memory 6 years 11 months ago #1469

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Loreen, you did real good ma'am.

I sometimes find it hard to believe how many lives dad touched in a positive way. It makes me so proud to be his son.

I think my father nodding when I told him I was homosexual and telling me he was glad I was out of the closet because he was sick of me being an asshole. He then asked me what I wanted for dinner as if I hadn’t said anything wrong. My face crumbled and Dad smiled and rustled my hair. He asked me what did I think he was going to say. I just shook my head I thought he was going to be disappointed and disown me. He said there was no way he was losing his little boy over being who he was. He said now what are we having for dinner. I smiled wiped my tears and told him I wanted Chinese. He rubbed his hands together and walked away laughing. Then he told me to come on because he was starving. I looked at Mark who also had tears in his eyes. I hugged him and told him we were lucky because we had an awesome dad.

Meeting my sisters are good memorable moments and meeting Alicia was real special to me because she was everything my mother was not. She was the perfect woman for my awesome father. I miss them both terribly.

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Moments in our Memory 6 years 11 months ago #1470

Jimmy

I was a criminal lawyer, defense attorney. I got a client who had killed four people and I had never met a more heartless man in my life. He was white too. When I saw what he did to his victims and knew I couldn’t defend him. He showed me what DEMON really is and I stopped my practice as a defense attorney. I worked in the prosecutors off for a few years and went for a position as a judge. I there until I retired.

I saw in my daughter what I saw in the last client I had as a defense attorney and when she almost cost Justin his life I prayed she would die before she killed someone else. Yes I said else. Shawn wasn’t Rebecca’s first born he was her second. The first child she murdered and swore it was an accident. The realization that we had given birth to a real demon was profound and we did nothing wrong so when Mason wrote the article she wrote it was healing for me and my wife.

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Moments in our Memory 6 years 11 months ago #1471

Jordan

Mom…I love you and pop more than I can find the words to say.

I think the life changing moments for me was my brother literally standing up for me when I was young, Sir Paul standing up for me while I was in college, Luke helping me come out and asking for my hand in marriage, and finding my parents. These are the moments in my memory that caused or brought about direct changes and greatly impacted the course my life has taken. This has been a very emotional thread. Just listening to my parents talk about my sister who is no longer with us and how difficult it was makes me emotional.

I have never witnessed a murder but I’ve seen death. I’ve seen it occur peaceful and naturally, and I’ve seen it as a result of a violent act. As a physician you see many things that affect our society and you have to be able to stomach some of it as I’ve also seen the results of child abuse, domestic abuse, and parental abuse. I have to agree Loreen, the witnesses to these violent occurrences are as badly affected as the victims. Nicely done Loreen.

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