Angie Lou's Avenues

By Eva O'Nay Brooks

Angie Lou, a petite African-American girl, learns about life the hard way. Growing up in the south and living with physical and psychological abuse, she escapes the poverty and hopelessness of her situation only to discover her greatest enemies come disguised as friends and neighbors. Follow Angie Lou on her

AVENUES TO CIRCLE U

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 4, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477144305

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Angie Lou’s Avenues

EVA O’NAY BROOKS

Copyright © 2012 by Eva O’Nay Brooks.

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Contents

Part I Childhood Days Of Innocence

Part Ii Ongoing Trials— Teenage Years Love / Passion

Part III On-Going Saga— Young Adulthood The Endurance / Hatred

Part IV Adulthood— Accused / Innocence Lost

Part V The Thirty Year Span Ends With Love / Conspiracy

ANGIE LOU’S AVENUES

BY

EVA O’NAY BROOKS

BOOK I

This historical, true story is about Angie Lou and Ben Omar Brown, and her avenues. Angie Lou, a pretty young petite Black-American girl who started out early in life during her first encounters in her adolescent years. Her second encounter while growing up through her teenage years when she first met Ben, her first husband. Ben was tall and handsome, with large biceps, who held her so tightly with his fiery, long passion of kisses, who always wanted things his way. Then there were times unexpectedly, viciously, with a hard slap, which penetrated her face like needle pricks and stunned. No air circulated through her nostrils. Bruised and swollen face and eyes that immediately surfaced, when he got in this stage, he would be on the cutting edge of drunkenness, jealousy, and paranoiac stress. This caused the breakup of the two. They loved one another profusely, but just couldn’t live together any longer as they approached adulthood.

Angie decided to make her move from South of the border to north of the border. She thought it would be a different world for her. Unfortunately, upon arriving there, it seemed plumb out of the country and nearly out of the world as she encountered the same ongoing plague she grew up in combatting other struggles in her life.

Angie thought that by telling other women, especially mothers, of her ongoing hardships, it would help them starting out in life raising families, even on into retirement years. That all women must stick together in this day and time. She thought by telling what and how to do in this changing society, by keeping a solid mind, not to be naive, walking a straight line while keeping both feet on the ground. Women keeping their eyes wide open, heads up instead of down, love and happiness to matrimony… but be on guard at this stage, because the last of the evils (conspiracy) through Angie’s Avenue’s to this present day on Circle U.

All names were changed to protect the innocent.

PREFACE

Angie wants to emphasize, especially to young adult women, the profound impact her memories have left on her emotional state of mind. They made her want to share her life growing up, during which she unknowingly, not realizing what was happening to her body as a young girl just at the peak of learning things as she started out in life.

Also growing up and into late adulthood, her life became the seven evils of hell that the devil left with her, whereby she developed no trust, no love, evilness, selfishness, became a loner and passive, until love, after a thirty year span, came back into her life. ’Til death do we part, were words which made both of them strong, sensitive, their needs bringing them closer together and turning their lives around. This time of growth found them developing characteristics such as true love, forgiveness, happiness, respect, honesty, trustworthiness, and offering to help others with pride. Angie, especially believes she has been reborn. She continues to read her Bible.

ANGIE’S ONGOING

HARDIHOOD AND

HARDSHIP IN LIFE

PART I

CHILDHOOD DAYS

OF INNOCENCE

Angie’s grandparents were black, Indian, and white. The descendants of slaves and the European landowner who owned them. Her grandfather was blessed to inherit many acres of land surrounding certain parts of mid-Tennesee Valley close to the Kentucky line. All blacks were called colored at that time.

In the early 1900s, her father was born into the family, raised, and worked as a sharecropper. From the time Angie was born in the mid-1900s, her father and mother moved, and continued as sharecroppers until they moved to the country town of about 8000 so she could enroll in the all-colored school. Afterward, her father hunted for jobs for five years, until he finally found one at the railroad yard. Her mom continued working as a charwoman, or housekeeper, a nanny or whatever that job was called back then. She worked five to six days a week for little or nothing, like fifty to seventy-five cents a day, sometimes ironing after she got home from work for thirty-five cents a basket. But they managed to survive according to their wages and with the help of their parents, furnishing vegetables and some meat from their once-a-year slaughtering. That was also during the time of the Depression years when some food was rationed. Angie remembers as a little girl when sugar and butter were hard to get.

That a family member had to show ration stamps to get sugar. She also remembers helping her mother churn milk for butter. Her mother made her pinafore dresses, her skirts and tops to match from pretty floral designed flour sack cotton material. One parent finished the eighth grade, the other finished the sixth grade. So one can imagine how much educational knowledge she got as a young girl. But, wisdom is acquired as one grows up in life, and Angie was at the peak of it, the learning stage, at the age of ten.

Angie recalled that back when she was around ten years old, she realized how naive and uneducated she was, compared with children today. Nowadays, children learn about many things at an early age, such as sex, nudity, menstruation, pregnancy and having children, prejudice, racism, and immorality, especially since society in the 90s has changed so drastically in its morality.

A child in this generation and era needs to learn as soon as they can comprehend a little bit about such issues and things, so they can be abreast on any subject dealing with living one’s life. The function of the organs as in anatomy, physiology, the dangers, forced and coerced behavior between family members and others, the outsiders. Children must learn and grow with the changes in the society, taught in a way which communicates, helps them to comprehend, and retain the information. Children need to have their absorption rate checked, which will cut down on rape, incest, molestation, anything as in immorality with anybody, any place, and anywhere.

Angie remembers back as the oldest child, she learned the hard way. She knew nothing about sex, her pubic area, the vaginal area or being a virgin. She knew nothing about intercourse, two people engaging in sex. While visioning back, she said she can remember when a distant relative named Allen, who was about five years older than her, would come over to visit, riding his bike.

He used his bike to get next to her by psyching and manipulating her into doing what he wanted her to do. He would always keep his bike in tip-top shape, like pretty shining lights that glittered on and off, pretty shining chrome around the wheels, handlebars and mirror. She would beg him to let her ride his bike, but he kept refusing her over and over, telling her that she didn’t know how to ride a bike. She remembered that she would be whining, begging, but grinning at the same time, jumping up and down eagerly and emotionally because she wanted to ride so badly.

She said, I do know how to ride.

Finally, he said, Okay, you can play with the lights, go on and play with the lights.

She slowly moved and started nonchalantly playing with the lights, but she really wanted to ride the bike. She then started rubbing, turning, and wiping the lights slowly, thinking how pretty they looked as she showed excitement. He then got closer and closer to her, as she moved closer to the bike. He started fondling her pubic area, and she didn’t know what was going on.

He slowly began caressing her more all over her vaginal area, then the next thing she knew his whole hand and fingers had begun to move slowly, his protruding fingers penetrating an orifice.

At that age,the only thing she knew was her urinary orifice.

She recalled that as long as she played with the lights, he would continue taking his sexual pleasures. She began to feel differently, uncomfortable, as he was poking and tugging at her sensitive tissue.

She looked