Tag: children
member name: Roger Kiser
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September 27, 2007 03:56 PM EDT --
Having been raised in a Jacksonville, Florida orphanage; I knew absolutely nothing, about anything, once I walked out of that facility, many years later. I had no idea how to fill out a job application, . . .
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May 17, 2008 06:38 PM EDT --
Mean Moms (author unknown)
Someday when my children are old enough to
understand the logic that motivates a parent, I will
tell them, as my Mean Mom told me: I loved you
enough . . . . . .
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June 15, 2008 10:04 AM EDT --
Til Death Do Us Part
Between the ages of six and fifteen, I had witnessed two murders, possibly three. I had seen at least ten dead bodies lying in the street, all while living on the streets, and . . .
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August 08, 2007 09:16 AM EDT --
Having been raised most of my young life in a Jacksonville, Florida orphanage, I, along with many other kids, was not familiar with the feeling of ‘love.' ‘Love' was just a . . .
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October 19, 2007 01:21 PM EDT --
"Just where in the hell did you get that?" asked the house parent.
I held out my 7-year-old hand, opened my fist and exposed the tiny toy car held inside.
"It's a Christmas present . . .
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July 01, 2008 08:27 PM EDT --
I left California about 13 years ago and moved to Brunswick, Georgia. Since that time, hardly a day goes by that I do not think about returning to fish for stripped bass in the beautiful California . . .
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June 01, 2008 11:33 AM EDT --
"Papa, can I have another envelope?" asked my five year old granddaughter, Chelsey.
"LOOK! I've already given you three envelopes today and you are just wasting them.
"But . . .
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May 27, 2008 10:46 AM EDT --
The memories flood my heart, as I sit in this old rocking chair.
Back and forth I rock, back and forth my mind goes.
We are old, this chair and I. We are very much a matched pair.
The magic has . . .
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May 16, 2008 09:48 PM EDT --
As I write my stories and can sometimes look back into my past, occasionally I get a glimpse of what I felt as a little boy. I can see myself clearly as a little boy and remember almost everything that . . .
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November 12, 2007 11:36 AM EST --
"Bassett Army Hospital" said a male voice.
Immediately, I looked up from my magazine to see who had made the statement. At age seventeen, I had served more than a year of my military service . . .
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October 18, 2009 04:14 PM EDT --
Over the past twenty-five years many have thanked me for the work I have done for abused children, protecting the elderly, teen suicide, legally representing children on welfare, the exposure of the twenty-three . . .
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December 14, 2007 01:58 PM EST --
NO WONDER OUR CHILDREN DO NOT CARE ANYMORE
Maybe it's because I got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, I just don't know. But for some reason, I have my head stuck up my rear-end . . .
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June 05, 2008 10:32 AM EDT --
I realize as responsible adults we must watch what we say, especially when children and grandchildren are in the area.
I am probably one of the most impatient men living on the face of this earth or . . .
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July 03, 2008 12:48 PM EDT --
This is a very unusual story. It is one that is very difficult for me to tell. Not only because of the incident itself but trying to tell the story in such a manner that it is not crude or disrespectful. . . .
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September 15, 2007 03:01 PM EDT --
Sometimes it is very difficult for me to write something that will allow the readers of my stories to comprehend a certain point that I am trying to make. I hope this short story makes a very important . . .
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October 12, 2008 04:33 PM EDT --
Those of you who have read my books and stories know of the horrors we children suffered at the hands of the State of Florida. On October the 19th the Miami Herald will release a story in their paper . . .
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May 16, 2008 09:57 PM EDT --
If there was ever a time when I, as a child, felt totally worthless because of the actions of an adult, it would have to be when I stood before Mother Winters, the head matron of the Children's Home . . .
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May 18, 2008 01:56 PM EDT --
Having been raised my entire childhood in The Children's Home Society, located in Jacksonville, Florida; we children were not reared to become loving individuals. Love was not part of the orphanage . . .
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September 30, 2007 02:10 PM EDT --
Over sixty years I have been an Orphan, "Little Retarded Bastard," Orderly, Medic, Nurse, Painter, Finished Plummer, Ambulance Driver, Emergency Medical Technician, Legal Representative, Counselor, . . .
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July 18, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
Almost every evening my three year old granddaughter, Madison would bring me her book titled "Short a and Long a" to read to her. Turning the pages I would read and then point to the . . .
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