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Secret Life of Men - Monique Newman
Copyright © 2011 by Monique Newman.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2011918735
ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-4653-8179-8
Softcover 978-1-4653-8178-1
Ebook 978-1-4653-8180-4
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Editor’s name: Mike Valentino
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1
The Beginning
Chapter 2
Drama the First Day
Chapter 3
Highly Sexed Creatures
Chapter 4
All this Money and No Sex
Chapter 5
The Age of Viagra
Chapter 6
Another Satisfied Customer
Chapter 7
Decisions, Decisions
Chapter 8
A Closer Connection
Chapter 9
Seal the Deal
Chapter 10
Trouble Leads to a New Beginning
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Giving Honor and thanks to God who places special gifts and talents in each of us. Special thanks to my publishing team at Xlibris. Special thanks to all of my loved ones for their supportive encouragement.
Men are a combination of Good and Evil.
Jacquline Kennedy Onasis
CHAPTER 1
The Beginning
You’re fired!
Who would’ve ever thought that being fired from my job would turn out to be one of the best things that had ever happened to me.
Of course it didn’t seem like it at the time.
I was panicked about how I was going to pay my rent and bills and mad at myself for not controlling my temper at work and getting into an argument with a coworker, that almost came to blows.
Being the diligent, hard working, always having a job type person I was I didn’t take being unemployed lightly.
You see it wasn’t just the job I’m young I could always get another job. It was the perks.
I was working at a five-star hotel and able to stay for free or for next to nothing at five-star properties around the world.
I was used to taking vacations every year at the resort of my choice so that part I would sorely miss.
I was in school at the time a student at the local community college here in DC with my own apartment, working full-time to pay for it all.
I had been on my own for a few years now by this time supporting myself as a young woman, and doing well.
I had run up against hard times before, being in between jobs and wasn’t opposed to doing whatever it took to get by.
Sometimes working two jobs if necessary, just as long as I have the self-respect of supporting myself.
My mother a beautiful wonderful Asian woman always instilled independence in me not to depend on a man or anyone for that matter.
I’m Lauren an intelligent young woman, from a mixed background with a heart of gold and fearless.
I’m petite like my mom with a small frame, really long dark hair and a golden complexion.
My dad, a black man with very dark skin was a handsome, educated, convict.
He was imprisoned most of his life and mine. He met my mom while he was still in the military overseas in Vietnam, fell in love with her and brought her back to the states.
They settled in NewYork on Long island where my dad grew up.
They were married and things were fine with them for a while but my father’s life went downhill after the service.
He suffered some bad injuries in the service and was now on disability. Dissatisfied with merely receiving a veterans check My dad turned to dealing heroin.
Which was easy for him, because soldiers had lots of connections in those days when my mom told him she was pregnant with me, she said he was the happiest she’d ever seen him and he cherished my mom so the news of her pregnancy only pushed him harder.
He did get to witness my birth but by the time I was two years old, my dad got life in prison for distribution of heroin and murder.
He’d shot and killed another dealer in self-defense.
He was later killed in prison by a rival gang during a prison riot. My mom, full of life with a beautiful smile did an amazing job on me despite the hardships with my dad.
She raised me to be proud of the Asian and the black cultures. She encouraged me to learn about all cultures because she said we all have something to learn from each other, and that there’s only one race the human race.
She also taught me to have confidence and spirituality.
She says she wanted me to be a well-adjusted young lady in spite of my past, I love her for it.
My mom moved us out of New York down to Washington DC for a new start after my dad was killed.
My mom and I were always very close, but we definitely had our challenges during my teenage years.
I was a teenager in the 90s and the more I tried to get out of the gate.
The more my mom would try to rein me back in. She was a strict disciplinarian, and did not want me to be without discipline, just because my dad was no longer with us.
So there were lots of struggles and challenges. By the time the year 1999 rolled around, I was 19 and going to be starting my first year of college. I couldn’t wait to break out of the nest and do my own thing.
I wanted a place of my own.
I was tired of hearing my house, my rules from my mom. We couldn’t afford a four year college tuition.
So I enrolled in community college, working part time as a shampoo girl in a hair salon.
My mom said, I think it will be good for you to be out on your own to see what the real world is like.
I’ll even help you, so my mom gave me a loan and helped me get settled in a new place.
On one condition that I stay in school and pay her back the loan she gave me.
My first semester of college I took a job as a stripper, a girlfriend of mine who was stripping and also in school and had two kids thought it would be a good way for me to make extra money.
I didn’t work at the same club, she worked at though I worked Downtown DC.
I wanted to work somewhere far away from campus. I was totally scared when I first started, but I’m a go getter.
I had to do something to maintain, and did not want to go back home and live at my mom’s and asking for help from family and friends wasn’t something I did.
I did very well at the club, but eventually got tired of the smoky rowdy club scene and reverted back to temporary office work, before I got the job at the hotel, which I kept for three years before I was fired.
I was 23 at the time and my goal was a teaching career. My degree was in early childhood education.
I worked my way through school to