Tag: orphanage
member name: Roger Kiser
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September 22, 2007 10:59 PM EDT --
"It's hard for me to learn. There's something wrong with me inside my head. That's what they say to me at the orphanage," I told Mrs. Dryer, the school Principal.
I will never forget . . .
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July 20, 2007 03:48 PM EDT --
Just received my audio short story CDs in the mail this morning. I have to warn you these are stories about my years of abuse in a Florida Orphanage. However, the language is clean and the stories . . .
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July 11, 2007 05:31 PM EDT --
My husband told me to tell you, "That you better not use his name in that damn book of yours," she yelled at me over the phone. I just stood there very quiet, not knowing what to say.
The last . . .
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February 13, 2008 04:52 PM EST --
I must have lost head when I agreed to go shopping with my wife this morning. Am I so retarded and is my brain so small that I have forgotten the never-ending circles she always travels, looking at hundreds . . .
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June 10, 2008 09:17 PM EDT --
My short story titled "THE BULLY" was made into a short film by Edward Asner and producer/director Nicholas Delfino.
It was very unusal to see one work on film. One day just a memory and . . .
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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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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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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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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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September 13, 2007 01:59 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 . . .
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October 17, 2007 08:57 PM EDT --
Needing to get something laminated I headed down to Staples Office Supply. Getting out of my truck I saw a Coca Cola stand set up in front of the store. Written on the side was a hand printed poster which . . .
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August 23, 2008 03:34 PM EDT --
I remember very the first time I met him. I couldn't have been 12 years old or so; I really can't remember my exact age.
I was ordered by the Juvenile Judge, Marion Gooding to go with this . . .
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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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April 12, 2008 04:41 PM EDT --
If I had to choose just one person who has affected my life more than any other individual, it would have to be Mayme Winters or "Mother Winters," as we called her at the orphanage.
I am not . . .
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May 01, 2008 07:45 AM EDT --
It was "May Day." All the children from the Spring Park Elementary School had gathered on the school grounds for the May Day Maypole dance.
This dance involves many short flagpoles, with . . .
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