Diary0723: Revealing Truth

By Farrah D. McBride

Diary0723: Revealing Truth is a captivating story of one womans journey through love, hurt, pain, and overcoming rejection. Through this journey she finds the answers to the longing questions in her heart. She finds the answers to her why and ultimately finds forgiveness and freedom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Feb 25, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504980586

Farrah D. McBride

I first recognized my creativity as a writer after winning an essay contest as child and being published in a local newspaper. It has been my dream to become a writer ever since. I was raised in single-family household with my three siblings in Augusta, Georgia. I left home at eighteen to serve my county. After several years in the service, I left to raise my son in Maryland, where I completed my bachelor’s degree in health care administration and human resource management.

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Published by AuthorHouse 06/02/2016

ISBN: 978-1-5049-8011-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5049-8012-8 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-5049-8058-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016903209

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Special dedication

Introduction

Where it all begins

First Love

The Player

You got to be F–ing kidding me

The Depression

Forbidden Fruit

Love Struck

Acknowledgments

First I would like to Thank God for giving me a gift and giving me the opportunity to share my gift with the world. Thanks to my Mom who is no longer with us. I know she would have been proud. A special thanks to my son Zaiden. Thanks for having faith in me and believing in me even when my faith was wavering. Thanks to my family and friends for all their support.

Special dedication

A special dedication goes out to Jacob, you know who you are. You are the reason Diary0723 exists. You are truly an inspiration. To Darius, the one that stole my heart, you may or may not understand the love I have for you, but thank you. Because of what I experienced with you, I know I am no longer afraid to love. I am free and I am ready to love and be loved.

Introduction

It amazes me, the things we remember as a child and the things we forget. I was about five years old; my mother, siblings and I lived in a one bedroom shack in a small country town in Georgia. The house was around the corner from Deli Mac. It wasn’t too far from Briarwood apartments. There were times when we didn’t have running water. So my Mom would walk across to the neighbor’s house to fill a bucket with water, so we could have water to cook, drink and bathe. I learned at that very moment, the strength of a mother and that she would do whatever necessary to take care of her children. Even if this meant denying herself of some things in order for her children to have what they needed. My mother demonstrated to me unconditional love and the love only a mother could have for her children. Nevertheless, as a child I needed the love of my father too.

"Now as he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up. But when Jesus