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The First Encounter
Author’s Note: This is an exerpt from An Emerald Homecoming, an upcoming novel from A Timeless American Historical Romance Series. Each day Jackie biked to the beach alone. She sat on the sand, gazing into the infinite golden horizon, searching for the meaning of what happened with her parents’ death by looking into the clouds…
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I Hate Green Beans!
As a kid, I had a very strict rule. I didn’t eat anything green. I was a finicky eater at best, but I just hated the awful taste in my mouth. And to make matters worse, my mother wasn’t a cook. She put everything on the table as best as she could, unfortunately, that meant…
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UnHappily Ever After
You may be familiar with my story. I was a poor orphan forced into servitude, and then, with a twist of fate, fell in love with a prince to live happily ever after. That was the real story. The authors embellished it with fanciful inventions of fairy godmothers and pumpkins turning into carriages. That was…
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Darkness Within
Author’s Note: It’s hard to watch someone you love suffer, especially if you can’t do anything to help. This is from a parent’s viewpoint. The dark sky loomed, relentlessly following every step, blocking every turn. I never thought I could feel so powerless. How could the world twist so out of control that it would…
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Darkness Within
The dark sky loomed, relentlessly following every step, blocking every turn. I never thought I could feel so powerless. How could the world twist so out of control that it would target my child? I’ve always trailed my own unconventional path, but I can’t imagine what it feels like to be trapped in your own…
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From All the Unknown
Author’s Note: If you’ve ever been bullied or felt to feel less than… this one’s for you. You don’t really see me. You only judge what you believe. You never care to know the real me; Do I not feel? Can I have no pain? You don’t know, you just want to feel big again…
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Growing Up is Hard! And to make it even tougher, when Katie is the first one in her class to get a bra – she finds out boys can be dumb and girls can be mean. How does she get through it? Find out by reading Diary of a 6th Grade “c” Cup this week…
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New Diary, New Year
I’m calling freshman year in high school the great awakening because I hope it will wake me up to a new life, like the dawn of a horizon with endless possibilities. My high school is a funnel of nine smaller grade schools from three towns combining into one school of nearly four thousand kids. That…
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Valentine’s Day
Author’s Note: This is an excerpt from Diary of a 6th Grade “C” Cup, a Growing UP Girls book. Dear RBG: Yesterday was Valentine’s Day at school. I was up late filling out cards for every single person in my class. That’s the rule, so no one feels bad. We have to give a card…
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Growing UP Books by Suzanne Rudd 