Is Life One Big Goodbye

Some of you may know this, but then, some may not. After spending almost a year Homeless I wrote the book, “Is Life One Big Goodbye” One Homeless Woman’s Survival Story.
I’m happy to say it went on Amazon.com on my mother’s birthday, November 6th. The paperback will be out soon. To all of you who have supported me and gave me hope, I thank you.
Rose



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I blended into the walls, like other women: faceless, no expression—a dead look. I’d lost my identity, my individuality. I no longer knew myself. The other women were young, Black, Hispanic, and a very few White, like me. Most had been abused by fathers, mothers, husbands or children. Children who didn’t want to care for their mothers signed them in after they had been released from psychiatric facilities. Twenty-year olds were put here by their mothers or fathers after they came from drug or alcohol centers. Children don’t want to care for mothers. Mothers don’t want to care for children—their own flesh and blood. If there’s a ‘me’ underneath this faceless disguise that has attached itself to my body, I want it to leave, now!

After having been married with two children, a nice home, belonging to golf country clubs, a divorce, an Alzheimer’s caregiver for 14 years, at age 68, after surgery and many medical bills, I had to move into a Homeless Shelter.