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Serenity71

Spiritual Autobiographies

Autobiographers write their life story for many reasons. One reason is that reflecting on one’s own life is therapeutic. Autobiography is cathartic because through writing a person can process thoughts.

2 comments    spirituality spiritual lewis
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The Glass Castle: Between Turbulence and Order

I just finished reading The Glass Castle. This memoir, by Jeannette Walls, recounts the hardships of a life where moving often, changing jobs, lies, alcohol, lack of food, few showers, and more were the norm....

2 comments    books literature autobiography
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It's Okay To Be Your Love Slave

It's okay to be your love slave waiting upon your whim. You so easily take me for granted since you own my soul ever and always. I understand. I pretend sometimes to be a statue in your garden that comes to...

11 comments    writing truth fiction
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Elsbeth's Autobiography

TRAUTCHEN (Part 1) THE EARLY YEARS. I have wanted to write my story for a long time. My children often asked me to write down everything that had happened in my life. So I’m writing this...

1 comment    sewing knitting crochet
Richard Terry profile image68

Gay Emancipation

A GAY CHILD MENTORED (from the series:Gay Emancipation) Despite the heartache of being an abused child, and the constant feeling that "there must be something that I do wrong because daddy doesn't like me;"...

2 comments    love relationships politics
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Great Soccer Players: Zinedine Zidane

This hub is the first in a series of small tributes to some of the world's greatest ever soccer players, these will be appearing in no particular order and the series has no fixed amount of players to...

0 comments    football soccer france
J.M. Coetzee71

First Person vs Third Person: Writing your own experience

"I love to talk about myself. I have a fascinating life. I have done so much!" That basically is the problem with first person narratives. It sounds selfish and self-centred. In the same way that we avoid...

10 comments    life how to education
Dusty miller and lantana.68

Another Day in My Life

Dusty miller and lantana. My front yard. Doing the neverending laundry. Reading Morrigan's Circle by Nora Roberts.A Little Background First I am a fifty one year old woman living in S. California (Anaheim)....

5 comments    life family relationships
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Dorsi: A Story of Redemption - Chapter 1

DORSI: A STORY OF REDEMPTION PREFACE: Who would have thought that when I started to write this book that I would be sitting on the couch with a laptop in my lap, my husbands oversized slippers on, and no...

30 comments    religion faith dorsi
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A troubled childhood. Part 4

The continuing autobiography of a remarkable man. In this episode, the abuse continues, but now it is committed by women rather than a man. Part 4 I don't know what psychologists would say about a young...

0 comments    child abuse autobiography
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