Time to Tell the Truth: Embrace Me
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Dorothy Bree Epperson
My name is Ramona Valerie Hutchins. I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 7, 1960. I was raised by my two parents and lived with six brothers and three sisters. I attended public schools and graduated in 1978. While raising six children, I attended Community College of Philadelphia, Temple University, and Strayer University. At the same time, I worked as an overnight manager. Since 1978, I’ve been writing poetry and enjoyed it. In 2012, I finally decided to put in one book my writings that were piled up in several books and on several papers. Another love of mine is karaoke. As of 2012, I have four adorable grandchildren. Also, for some reason, I collect and admire unicorns. Finally today, poetry constantly enters my mind and stops my thoughts.
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Time to Tell the Truth - Dorothy Bree Epperson
TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH
EMBRACE ME
DOROTHY BREE EPPERSON
Copyright © 2012 by DOROTHY BREE EPPERSON.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Miserable Hostage
Dreams Come True
Time To Escape
So Now You’re Tougher
The Embryo Attack
Water Bugs Attack
Out-Of-Control Mice
Execution Time, Baby
I Got Free
Reunite, Yeah Right!
I Am Innocent
Distraction
Tender
Dad, My Heart Is Heavy
Silence
Silently
That Feeling
Got To Have You
Try God
A So-Called Date
Now That You’ve Taken My Hand
Broken Promises
Before Tomorrow Comes
Patience
You Have Survived
Somewhere Down The Line!
Your Friend
Could Be Worse
Abused… Better Choose
Getting Out Into The World, Getting Wild
Sad To Proud
As Is
Then I Begin To Write
You Haven’t Touched My Soul
Outside Of The Struggle
Mother And Father
Persuader
Material Things
Your Love Is All Around Me
How’s Life Treating You?
Stay Together
A Beggar On The Street
Baby
What If?
The Creator, A Friend
Who She Is
Father
Living In The City
Forum
She’s Gotten It Together
Color Was Their Crime
Believe In A Miracle
Betty
A Child’s Conversation
As I Look Around
She Can Talk
Poetry
Fighters In The Struggle
Wanted To Lay Her Body Down
Amazing Me
Taking Us Through Changes
Is It Really On Me?
My Neighbor Isn’t Talking To Me
What’s Holding You Down, Louie?
The Lady Who Lives In A Shoe
Got To Have You
I Love You, I Love You
Ramona
Committed And Devoted
Car Trouble
I’ll Be
Think Twice Before You Dump Her
Dedicated to Art Smith, who put the thought in my mind to write a book and constantly asked me where it is every time I ran into him on the streets. I was sorry to hear of his passing, but he influenced me. Also dedicated to James, Mary, my six supportive adorable children, and Courtney. I want to thank Liz for her creative input. Alia, thank you also for my internet training.
Love, peace, and blessings.
THE MISERABLE HOSTAGE
HI, JUST CALL me Yevette Sylvia Catherine Stevens, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1960. This is a true story from everything I can remember. Yes, Southwest Philly is my part of the city and where I grew up. I grew up with my ten siblings, my mom, and my dad. I want to write about my entrapment from 1979, when it all started, to 1990, when it all ended. I was somewhat restrained in a Philadelphia home. My esteem was defused down to nothing. The control freak had it going on for a while. I never believed in amnesia until it happened to me. A beating with a broomstick is vicious while you’re six months pregnant. Well, I will come back to that story later.
Let me start with who tortured me for ten years and why. The father of my kids beat the crap out of me, and sometimes I wonder if I am really alive and if I seriously did go through that. I think it was just a dream that felt so real. Why he did it? Maybe because he was just heartless or a bully without a heart. I also wonder what God’s purpose was for me, or was it just all my fault? I am sure everyone had them real dreams before. First you wake up and can’t believe it’s happening to you. How can someone treat you like a slave?
The stories I am about to tell you are true, and I hope no one will ever have to live through an abuse after the year 2000. I ended up living with and being isolated with the abuser at age nineteen, and I was pregnant with our daughter, my second pregnancy. One day I visited his home and was forbidden to leave. It was a three-bedroom, one-bathroom, two-story house on a small one-way street. One day my shoes and clothes were taken away, and I walked to my sister’s house eight blocks away without any shoes. I crossed streets covered with dirt and sidewalks dirty with glasses and other debris. This was when one day I visited him and had to escape because he was snapping. That day I found all my clothing hidden somewhere around the house. I ended up back in the home when I visited my child’s father another time. This time, I got very, very sick, and I ended up staying there. I vomited several times a day because the first pregnancy was so hard for me. Everything I ate just came out; nothing