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    When Everything Get's in the Way
    When Everything Get's in the Way
    When Everything Get's in the Way
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    When Everything Get's in the Way

    By Mattia M. Smith

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    It began with the heartbreaking unparalleled bond between family and lovers trust.

    An Emotional, provocative, spiritual and unforgettable novel about how we love, how we long to be loved, how the choices we make from day to day has cause and effect in our everyday lives.

    This novel is broad in scope and settings. Wise, and dramatically true in its story telling. When Everything Gets In The Way is a completely captivating novel that foretells deeply felt pains of betrayal, lies, deceit and the broken bonds of trust by a loved one and what it means to be human and to love and wanting to be loved.

    What happens to them and the large and small manners, in which it echoes throughout, the lives of so many other people is proof of the moral complexity of life, which involves lovers wounds, and betrayal. And the honor and sacrifice we make for one another to get to the top.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    ISBN9781493110582
    When Everything Get's in the Way
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    Mattia M. Smith

    My name is Mattie Smith. I was born to the union of AJ Smith and Lillie Belle McGaughy on November 7th in the era of the sixties. I came from a fairly large family. I also have five brothers and five sisters. My parents were farmers in the rural area of Mississippi. We were a poor family and not much money ran through our household. My father was a farmer. And in his spare time he use to freelance and take odd jobs to help support the well being of such large family back then. He took odd jobs such as fixing on peoples cars, or doing their yard work to fill in for the extra income between jobs outside of the work he got paid for in farming on the Russell plantations. So we mostly survived on home grown meats and vegetables and fruits. I will start out by telling you a bit about myself so that we can get a little bit better acquainted. I am an outgoing person. I have a very pleasant personality. And I consider myself to be honest and open minded. I love to laugh and I love to make people laugh. I have a strong and combative nature, I am ambitious, I have a good sense of humor, and a desire to conquest and overcome negative obstacles. I’ve been told that I have good intuition and the ability to read others, their motivations and their intentions, their strength and their weakness. But apparently I don’t always use those qualities when it comes to the matters of the heart. Which brings me to sharing this part of my life with you. Now you might say. “Wow Mattie’s life story, so what, everybody has a life story.” Well, my life story is one of inspirational matter, and I’ve been told by many other that I need to share it with the world. So in doing so, I hope to inspire you into believing in yourself no matter what life brings your way. Just as I have to do at this very moment in my life. Right now at this very moment in my life I have hit what is known as “Rock Bottom.” I’ve lost everything I had, or you can say, I’ve lost everything my family had, which was not very much. But I worked very hard for what I did have. Alright, I know your wondering or saying, “Yeah, same old story, she either was on drugs or on the streets using drugs, or possibly a gambler of some sort.”. But no, not the contrary its just the exact opposite. I never used drugs, I do not gamble, and I never worked in or on the streets. I’m a single mother, a widow for the past twenty one years. You see it could happen to you what happened to me. I would like to share my life story with you, in hopes that what happened to me will not happen to you.

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