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Telling It Like It Is: The Remarkable Life Experiences of My Aunt Edna
Telling It Like It Is: The Remarkable Life Experiences of My Aunt Edna
Telling It Like It Is: The Remarkable Life Experiences of My Aunt Edna
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Telling It Like It Is: The Remarkable Life Experiences of My Aunt Edna

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My historic biography offers me an opportunity to share an amazing individual with you, my ninety-two-year-old Aunt Edna. The best part of writing it was the joy of spending months in intimate contact with her. Believe me, I relished every hour being enlightened while in her extraordinary company. At times, we savored quiet lunches at restaurants; sometimes we sipped tea or Sprite. But most importantly, I spent captivating moments in her companywrapped in her love, enchantedas she recounted her philosophies about life, pausing here and there to reflect and finally dancing her lifes red carpet. Allow me a minute to get my needle and thread. Ill be ready to cross-stitch a colorful embroidery of Aunt Ednas life.

Hopefully, the result will be a stunningly detailed love quilt on which each stitch is carefully aligned. The completed masterpiece will tell you the story of her life. Ill do my best to reproduce her portrait without unnecessary alterations and distractions. First and foremost, Ill attempt to turn the reins over to her and let her tell it like it is. In other words, inasmuch as possible, youll get her lifes journey in unbiased, unabridged format straight from the horses mouth.

She has always been a cultural aficionado with a touch of class when it comes to her social circuitgoing to cinemas, operas, and dinners in downtown Washington, DC, more often than I do. Her diminutive physical statue is totally overshadowed by the larger-than-life essence, unabated charm, and integrity that radiate from her. And while she possesses so many positive attributes, she surrounds herself in modesty. Her humility is deeply rooted and sincere. She absolutely refuses to boast, often dismissing her entire life as being ordinary, insisting that she leads an uninteresting life. Ill contradict her with two words: au contraire!
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateJun 18, 2016
ISBN9781524609832
Telling It Like It Is: The Remarkable Life Experiences of My Aunt Edna
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Carrolyn Pichet

The author is a native Washingtonian but can boast a few highlights from abroad. A student of the Spingarn High School College Preparatory and Business Career Honors Programs, she began working at the DC Parole Board before her graduation. She received a BA degree in the romance languages from Howard University (with Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude honors) and attended the University of Maryland on scholarship for a master of art degree in Spanish language and literature. Awarded a grant from the International Institute of Education Student Exchange Program, she taught in two French high schools—one year in Avignon and another in Nice, France. Career positions included the DC Parole Board, African-American Institute, International Military Sports Council, and the Peace Corps. She was employed for twenty years with the US National Central Bureau, Interpol, Department of Justice, and in 2009, she retired from the Quality Control & Standards Unit, Language Services Section, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is the author’s fourth publication. Her first book, The Best Is Yet to Come, a motivational book for the health of mind and body, was published in 2010. Her autobiographical book, Growing Up in the Nation’s Capital: We Made It but It Took an Entire Village, was published in 2013. Poetry followed in 2014 with her third book, My Lovely Golden Rose: A Lifetime of Poetic Reflections and Precious Memories. The author is a self-proclaimed art lover who enjoys all music, especially classical, and the theater. She also enjoys interpreting and reciting poetry, storytelling, and teaching. She has a passion for participating in speech and writing contests in the Powertalk International Training Organization, winning numerous club and Blue Ridge Region speech contests. She also won several international and multiple Blue Ridge Region writing contests.

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