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    Time to Tell the Truth: Embrace Me
    Time to Tell the Truth: Embrace Me
    Time to Tell the Truth: Embrace Me
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    Time to Tell the Truth: Embrace Me

    By Dorothy Bree Epperson

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    This book is a true story. I wrote about my first few years living with the father of my children, starting from my first child. It tells how I was abused as I sat in the house caring for my children while writing poetry.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateDec 11, 2012
    ISBN9781479759163
    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.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

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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

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