Tag: childrens home society
member name: Roger Kiser
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December 27, 2007 04:27 PM EST --
ANOTHER ORPHAN'S LETTER
Hi Roger,
I have been crying all afternoon! I just purchased your book today at a book fair here in Los Angeles (near the LAX airport area) while taking my 2 young girls . . .
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January 12, 2008 02:54 PM EST --
"GOD, you are right. He is a freak with that ear all stuck against his head like that," said one of the girls, as I walked past them at Landon Junior-Senior High School in Jacksonville.
Being only my . . .
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November 06, 2007 11:50 AM EST --
The CDs of "AMERICAN ORPHAN" (The best stories of Roger Dean Kiser) just arrived this morning and are now available at: http://www.geocities.com/trampolineone/survive/srv080.htm
The sale of . . .
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September 04, 2007 05:05 PM EDT --
I was thirteen years old when I watched the Donna reed show for the first time. I had been living in the Children's Home Society Orphanage in Jacksonville, Florida for almost seven years.
I had no . . .
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September 12, 2007 05:20 PM EDT --
"What's wrong with you?" I asked Benjamin as I walked into his bedroom at the orphanage.
He said not a word as he lay across his bed. He was crying as loud as he could. I just stood there . . .
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October 25, 2007 08:11 PM EDT --
I don't remember us orphans being worried about getting in trouble with God. God was someone you had to deal with after you were dead. We had a long, long time before we were gonna be dead.
As . . .
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June 26, 2008 09:37 PM EDT --
During the triple points ordeal I ask my gather friends to help me raise enough points to get a Home Depot gift card to help my son build a shed for his lawnmower and tools. I was able to get $125.00 . . .
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August 24, 2007 11:17 AM EDT --
It had been many a year since I stood in front of Preston's Drug store. It is located where Beach and Atlantic Boulevard come together on the south side of Jacksonville, Florida.
This was the store . . .
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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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July 10, 2007 07:35 PM EDT --
"The record before me indicates that you are constantly getting into trouble. What seems to be the problem?" asked the judge.
"I don't know why I get into trouble all the time. I do . . .
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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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July 08, 2007 02:22 PM EDT --
How horrible it was to have to wear a sheet wrapped around ones self like a diaper for having wet the bed. In addition, then having to walk the horrible, long 2,000 yards to the dining room at the far . . .
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September 12, 2007 06:06 PM EDT --
On tonight's show we have a return guest. Roger Dean Kiser is the author of
many stories and is a frequent contributor to lots of internet columns. He
has now written a book Called Runaway. He will . . .
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July 10, 2007 07:40 PM EDT --
Once again, I sat alone in my bedroom. I had been sent to bed because I refused to eat a plate of boiled okra and eggplant, which we had been given for supper.
Slowly and very carefully, I opened the . . .
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September 19, 2007 05:13 PM EDT --
I guess I was eight or nine years old when I went to the beach for the very first time.
Living in an orphanage we kids never got to do much of anything, especially any of the fun things that other children . . .
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November 03, 2007 12:05 PM EDT --
I was a little disappointed when I saw the old buildings were now gone that I had known as a young boy. Every one of them replaced with a high-rise. It had been a long time since I had been to Jacksonville, . . .
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July 02, 2008 05:34 PM EDT --
"Some people!" snorted a man standing behind me in the long line at the grocery store.
"You would think the manager would pay attention and open another line," said a woman.
I looked to the front . . .
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June 20, 2008 12:23 PM EDT --
I know that everyone who has grandchildren is very proud of them. There is this hope that their offspring will have a happy life and that the world will be a much better place than it was when they were . . .
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August 22, 2007 05:23 PM EDT --
I remember being told, many times in the orphanage, that there was something mentally wrong with me.
Every time that I would get into trouble for climbing up a tree, or digging a hole in the ground . . .
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September 09, 2007 02:03 PM EDT --
The school bell rang and everyone was going inside. I think it was Bill Smith and I - we were in Grade 3 and had decided to skip school. We planned to go over to this man's yard and eat some of his . . .
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