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  • Genre:BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  • SubGenre:General
  • Language:English
  • Pages:400
  • eBook ISBN:9781667854663
  • Paperback ISBN:9781667854656

Fractured

Savagery and Murder Left Me Broken … Stepping On Pieces of Myself … How I Emerged as a Reconstructed, Pieced-Together Whole Person

by Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney

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Overview
From my earliest memories I was an unwilling audience to his savagery. Later, as unwitting bait, I witnessed an explosion of unbridled rage destroy the first person to ever love me. I survived, full of cracks, fissures, and fractures. Pieces missing, pieces stepped on with my own feet. None of which I could see. None of which I even knew. So, I joined a cult and raced into a marriage that did not match who I needed to be. After my escape from the cult and the marriage, I fell in love again and nearly drowned. The fractures and cracked pieces of myself could no longer be ignored or explained away. Thus, I began my journey to pick up those pieces and rearrange them as I sought to also seal the fractures. That journey ended and I emerged rebuilt to travel on a new path – new name included. So now, when I look in the "mirror", am I authentic or am I an illusion of my own mind? Have all the fractures really been sealed or am I still leaking what it takes to thrive? Am I still broken or am I sufficiently repaired?
Description
From my earliest memories I was an unwilling audience to his savagery. Later, as unwitting bait, I witnessed an explosion of unbridled rage destroy the first person to ever love me. I survived, full of cracks, fissures, and fractures. Pieces missing, pieces stepped on with my own feet. None of which I could see. None of which I even knew. So, I joined a cult and raced into a marriage that did not match who I needed to be. After my escape from the cult and the marriage, I fell in love again and nearly drowned. The fractures and cracked pieces of myself could no longer be ignored or explained away. Thus, I began my journey to pick up those pieces and rearrange them as I sought to also seal the fractures. That journey ended and I emerged rebuilt to travel on a new path – new name included. So now, when I look in the "mirror", am I authentic or am I an illusion of my own mind? Have all the fractures really been sealed or am I still leaking what it takes to thrive? Am I still broken or am I sufficiently repaired?
About the author
Carlespie has written a number of essays and screenplays. He currently teaches business and accounting at a local community college.
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