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    Granted a Second Chance to Say This
    Granted a Second Chance to Say This
    Granted a Second Chance to Say This
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    Granted a Second Chance to Say This

    By Brenda Carter-Foster

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    If you find yourself in a situation beyond your control and dont have anywhere to turn or anyone to ask for help, what would you do?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateNov 22, 2011
    ISBN9781449722739
    Granted a Second Chance to Say This
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    Brenda Carter-Foster

    Brenda Carter-Foster and her husband, Robert, have four children (two daughters, Sean and Khandi, and two sons, Vincent and Kenneth) grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She currently works for the Massachusetts Court System in the information technology department.

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      Book preview

      Granted a Second Chance to Say This - Brenda Carter-Foster

      Contents

      About the Author

      About the Book

      Prologue

      Remembering Psalm

      Homeless

      Pure Thanks

      Blessed With Bess

      Tuesday Night Prayer

      A Prayer For My Grandson

      Precious Mothers

      W     O     W

      ipe     ut   ar

      My Dad

      Change

      Sister’s Anger

      Hazel

      Why Fear

      There Are No Exceptions

      Hard Headed Boy

      An Angel Among Us

      Little Sister

      Awakening

      See Sister Jane Dance

      Looks Deceiving

      No Communication

      Friend For Real

      Speak Why Not

      Fear or Faith

      Why On Empty?

      In Sheep’s Clothing

      The Time Is Now

      Granted A Second Chance

      My Thank You

      About the Author

      Married to Robert Foster, we have four children, two daughters Sean and Khandi and two sons Vincent and Kenneth, Grandchildren and Great Grand Children. I currently work for the Massachusetts Court System in the Information Technology Department.

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      About the Book

      Writing about my thoughts and experiences in the form of poetry.

      9781449722722_TXT.pdf

      Prologue

      Who asks to be homeless? I did not, but it happened to me. I left Baltimore to come to Massachusetts to work as a welder at the Quincy Shipyard. I wanted to make a better life for my family and I. I had been laid off as a welder at the Sparrows Point Shipyard and was working as a maid at the Howard Johnson’s Hotel when a recruiter for Quincy Shipyard approached me and asked if I knew of any laid off shipyard workers looking for work. I told him that I was a welder and was interested. He asked me to take a welding test and then I was hired. The living conditions that he told me and the men and women that I referred to him were lies. He had a hotel room with two beds, for more than a dozen women who were recruited from different states to stay. I slept on the floor and

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