What Everyone Should Know About Loretta

By Loretta Knapp

I was seventeen when I started writing my short stories. They deal with my childhood, family, friends, feelings, and different stages of my life and my recovery.

I always dreamed of writing a book, and now it came true.

Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I wanted to write it.

Remember . . . it was my life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: May 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466930315

Loretta Knapp

I’m Loretta, I’ve dealt with mental illness for a long time since I was a child. The struggles that I went through and hurdles I jumped over. I received help with my mental illness with outside support. I hope that my journey will continue to get better as it goes on and I learn to accomplish many more things in life. I’ve made progress, I’m a better person. I understand my illness better with support. One problem I had was getting a new car and the expense to fit into my budget and I’m doing fine, I have 4 more years to pay on it.

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WHAT

EVERYONE

SHOULD KNOW

ABOUT

LORETTA

Loretta Knapp

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Contents

What Is Love?

What Is Love?

The Meaning of Friendship

We Pass This Way But Once

What Christmas Means

What Do I Expect Out of Life

My Friend Ruth

Is it OK to Have a Dream?

Who is This Loretta Person

Emotion

Worry

Do I Believe In Santa Claus?

Who Wants to Live With Schizoaffective Disorder?

Life

Look Into the Mirror

My Grandmother

Who Am I

Who Am I

Who Am I

Feelings

My Own Experience With Mental Illness

What Makes Loretta Special

What’s In a Smile

How Do People See Me

Special Place

Dreams

Turkey Trot Race

My Head

Easter

Hear Voices

Pain

To Grow

Bear Puzzle

My Journey of Recovery

Tiger

I Am Poem

What it Feels Like to be in Recovery

Life

How has Pat Hydock Helped Me

Taking a Walk

On The Road To Recovery

Special Person

Soon to be 50 years old

My Mother

Last … Did Loretta Have Fun In Her Life?

Loretta

What Is Love?

Have you ever stop to think, What is love? I often wonder what love is really about. People aren’t showing any love, and what love they do show only last maybe two or three weeks. Remember when you were in 2nd grade and your teacher told you the Ten Commandments, which stated love one another? I haven’t seen many people loving one another. I hear people bragging how rich they are, but do you think they’d give at least $5.00 to a very poor person? No. We all stand back and watch the person walk down the street with torn up clothes and no shoes and we laugh how he struggles through life. One other thing people do out of ignorance is gossip about how people act. I mean their friends always have money to go places, act so big because they have a lot of money and you don’t. This world is getting disgusting, and there’s definitely no Love. Jesus is the only one who showed us what Love is. He showed his Love by dying for us. I once thought love started out with two people, a girl and a boy. The first step is to get married. The one reason they get married is that the couple feel they love one another and now they are living together, and it gets rougher each day for both of them. So one day the couple sits down and have a talk. The next thing you know, they are getting a divorce and the reason is that, they’re just like me. They don’t know what Love is, but the couple don’t stop to think of love. I’m at least trying to figure out what love is. Love is beginning to leave us, and hate is taking over the world. In my own opinion, love is something special. Love can come in all colors, shapes, sizes. This world have to shape up and bring back love. Let love start the day first with your family and with all your relatives. Please bring back love, and show it for others,