Comment from Mistydawn

Exceptional

Your story made me cry. I'd heard it before on your podcast, but the way you put it here seemed more personal, emotional. It's very well-written, interesting start to finish. I'm sorry that you had to go through what you did. I'm glad you were able to rise above it. Your poem is beautiful, relatable. wonderful job. Well deserving of my last six.

 Comment Written 12-Oct-2019

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reply by the author on 19-Oct-2019

Thanks for your review. :-)

Comment from Rosemary Everson1

Excellent

I feel like you've had a real trying life. But much good has come from it. I love your story. I'll keep turning the pages and read the next chapter. Are you publishing a book when your finished?

 Comment Written 03-Oct-2019

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reply by the author on 03-Oct-2019

Thanks for your review.I am glad you are enjoying my story.

Comment from Spitfire

Excellent

I like the theme of thorns in the rose garden that runs through this. What a traumatic experience to have been raped and not even remember. Even worse to part with the child. But under the circumstances, it was the wise choice. Thank goodness, society seems to be more understanding now.

 Comment Written 15-Nov-2014

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reply by the author on 15-Nov-2014

Thanks for the review. I had no choice but to give the son up for adoption. I found him when he was 35 years old. He is a nice young man and he and his adoptive mom are friends f mine now.

reply by Spitfire on 16-Nov-2014

Oh, how wonderful. I love happy endings.

Comment from Caressa_08

Excellent

You made the right decision, & your son & his family, I know are so grateful.,...Thanks for sharing all this, Pat. along with your great poetry in this Chapter..
My Dear daughter joined the army, & was in for close to a year, though she had asthma & got out ...Unfortunately, that was back in 1994 & she was also raped..more than once. this while in boot camp by people in authority.....I am thankful, she didn't get pregnant, though I know if she did I would be accepting of that fact.. Though, what she went through, these crimes, against her that were never investigated. Messed up her mind for a time & mine also .

Caressa.

 Comment Written 01-Nov-2014

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reply by the author on 01-Nov-2014

Thanks for the review. I am glad you enjoyed it. I am sorry yur daughter experienced rape by those in higher positions, and that nothing was done in the way of investigation. The important thing is she and I both survived. May God bless her as much as he has blessed me through the years.

Comment from robina1978

Excellent

How difficult this must have been for you: dropping pregnant while drugged, and your mother wanting you to do an abortion. You did not as you did not want a murder on your child. You had to give it up for adoption, which still gets to you.

 Comment Written 28-Oct-2014

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reply by the author on 28-Oct-2014

Thanks for the review, All I went through was very difficult, but as the old saying goes, God made beauty out of the ashes. Just follow my story and you will find out just how beautiful God made things for me.

Comment from Jackarrie

Excellent

A very interesting story, you certainly have been through the mill. I didn't know date rape tablets were out back in 1957, Did you ever see your son again, or is this to come out later in your stories.

Well written, Mary

 Comment Written 28-Oct-2014

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reply by the author on 28-Oct-2014

Thanks Mary for the review. Yes, the date drugs have been there for a long time. The son question will just have to wait for an answer, as there is something more about him in a later chapter.

Comment from Genya

Exceptional

This was so sad Pat. It made me cry. So much in this short piece. The gun to your head, your mother, the drugged drink, the baby, adoption. I felt for you all the way through this. Really sad. A well deserved six.
Just to let you know I'm travelling and won't be around for a couple of weeks. Take care. Genya

 Comment Written 27-Oct-2014

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reply by the author on 27-Oct-2014

Thanks for the nice review. i am sorry it made you sad. I tried in the piece to give as much of my life as I could so the painful things around my youth would be out of the way. I knew it would evoke emotions in the readers. As it evokes emotions too, and I cry even today as I read and hear my story.
Be safe with your travels. I hope you will catch up on my story when you return.

Comment from emrpoems

Exceptional

This is my last six that I had kept for something like this. Your story is moving and there is an innocence that permeates all this darkness in your life. God takes care of his children and you ere one of those he considered His. Totally enjoyed reading this. Not the painful parts but the way God took you through and your simple trust in Him

 Comment Written 27-Oct-2014

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reply by the author on 27-Oct-2014

Thank you so much for the review and for your kind words. This indeed was a very painful time in my life, but God was there with me, as he was wooing me to Him. I didn't come to Him until 1 year a 3 months after the birth of my son. Having had abusive parents, it was hard for me to see unconditional love the love God has for his children. My parents it seemed loved me only when I was good. I knew at that point in life I had been a very bad person, so how could God love me. When I finally saw what I needed to do was when we were sing Just As I Am at church, and the second verse said we needed to come to God with all our dark spots and He would cleanse and forgive..
Thank you for the 6 stars,

Comment from boxergirl

Excellent

Patricia, what a terrible ordeal to experience at any time of your life, but it is amazing that you have survived your thorns and it looks as if things are going to brighten up for you in the next chapter.

 Comment Written 26-Oct-2014

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reply by the author on 26-Oct-2014

Thanks for the3 review

Yes, the next chapter is a heart warming story. It will be chapter 6-7-8 as it is just so long. It is a story that is co written by my late hubby and me 1 years before he died and is about our first few months of knowing each other.

Comment from misscookie

Excellent

To think a mother would treat her child so cruel she made my mom look like a saint.
Even though she thought it was for your good at least I thought that until she gave you those pills.
I'm sure she didn't wasn't to kill you, She loved you in a crazy way.
Once again reading some ones story refreshed my mind of my wacky life.
Due to a stroke my childhood was sort of a blank.
Thank goodness I wrote some things down through out the years yes God was with us all the way.

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 Comment Written 26-Oct-2014

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reply by the author on 26-Oct-2014

Thank you for the review. I am sorry you had a hard childhood too, The hardships we went through ar what made us the storng people we are.

reply by misscookie on 26-Oct-2014

You're very welcome.Yes I believe it gave me strength also Have a blessed Sunday.
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