You Are A Nightmare: A Young Girl's Experience With An Alcoholic
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This is the book about my experiences with a woman who had a problem with drugs and alcohol. A woman who had started our as a friend of my mother's and eventually became a huge nightmare.
Heidi K. Smith
Heidi K. Smith is a young girl who has been writing several different books over the past few years. She has mainly been writing a series known as The Arranged Marriage Chronicles. When Heidi is not writing she spends her time reading, watching a variety of television shows, and spending time with her family and friends. Her best friend and sister has helped her in many cases by coming up with the cover for each of these books. Heidi currently resides with her dog Treasure in the city of Rome, New York.
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You Are A Nightmare - Heidi K. Smith
Introduction: My Reasons For Writing This Book
There were several different reasons why I actually found myself thinking about writing a book that would eventually be telling people about the things that I had gone through shortly after my mother and I had moved to the city of Rome, New York. I know that there are people out there who will likely find themselves getting rather upset about the fact that I have decided to start writing about these things, but this is something that I honestly feel should happen regardless of how people might be feeling throughout that entire time. I also have the feeling that there are people out there who will be asking all kinds of questions about the reason that I had decided that I was going to wait for as long as I honestly did when it came to writing the book that would be telling all about the things that had taken place around the time that my mother and I were moving to an apartment complex called Bloomfield Gardens and during the time that we had met a woman named Jennifer Reesh.
Before I could even consider talking about everything that had happened the day that my mother and I had met this woman that I would later consider to be the biggest nightmare in my entire life, I would have to talk about a few of the things that had happened when my parents and I had been living in the small town of Ohio, New York where we had been living for as long as I could honestly remember. For those people who have known all about the reason that I had moved to Rome with my mother it would be increasingly obvious that there would eventually become a time when I would find myself having to talk about my life in that small town and sooner or later there would be things coming out that they would find themselves hoping would never come out or I would eventually see fit to lie about these things so that they would not be made to look like the biggest jerk in the entire world. The truth is, however, that I would never bring myself to the point where I would lie to my readers about the things that were happening throughout that entire time, especially since I had decided that I would be telling the truth about everything that had happened before and after certain things had ended up taking place. It would not matter to me if there was someone out there who would eventually hate me for making sure that the truth was told about the things that they had done when my father was in the hospital or even a short time after he had passed away. All that I knew for certain was that they would have to face the truth in one way or another no matter how painful that truth happened to be during that time. Either way, I knew that telling people the truth about the different things that I was dealing with at different times was something that was going to happen whether they had liked what was happening throughout that entire time or not.
Right from the moment that I had made the decision to start planning and writing this book I knew that there were things that were going to be happening that would eventually cause certain people in my life to become rather angry and upset. Over the years there had been certain things happening where I knew that secrets were bound to be kept and people were bound to be rather upset once they had started to realize that the truth about the things that they were hiding would come out when they were least expecting it to happen. In the end I knew that I was the one that they would blame for their secrets coming out, and the main thing that they would blame me for was the fact that I had refused to lie about everything that they had caused to happen during the time that they had done many of these things. Even though they had been the ones that had started many of these things to happen, they had seemed to think that their secrets should remain quiet even if they had proven that they had done certain things out of complete selfishness. Selfishness that had eventually caused problems for other members of the family because they had felt that they did not have to think about the people that they were hurting at different times. Over the years it would become obvious that Jenn had become every bit like those members of the family who had used their selfishness to make sure that nobody had found out the truth about everything that they had done throughout that entire time.
I knew that there would be certain things happening that would cause me to have to give some thought to how I was going to be writing this book and just how much detail should go into everything that had happened before and after the things that I had dealt with at that time in my life. I knew that there would be people out there who would make every attempt to say that I was lying about everything that they had done, despite the fact that there was that part of them that knew that the truth was coming out after the hell that I had been through at different times. It did not matter to me whether these things that I was talking about were because of Jenn or even because of a member of my family who had ended up causing the problems that I was dealing with throughout the entire time that my father had been sick and going through all of his treatments. Either way, this was something that I would be dealing with and remaining quiet about for a rather long time. They had all seemed to realize that there would be a time when I would decide that it was time for my silence to be broken, and if that meant that there were people out there that would be rather upset because these things were happening then let them be upset because the truth has to come out no matter how it would make certain people feel throughout that entire time.
The minute that I had made the decision to start writing this book I knew that I would have to make sure that everything that I was writing about had been completely true. I knew there were going to be certain things that people were not going to like, but I had hoped that in the end it would cause them to realize that they just could not continue to lie about the terrible things that they have done over the years. They could not continue to hide everything that they were saying about other people knowing that they were making my mother and I go through certain things completely alone when they had promised that they would always be there for us after certain things had taken place over the years. Things that we should have never had to handle on our own because they were afraid of proving that they were there for people that other members of their family had not liked simply because they were angry and jealous about the things that were happening at different times. Either way, I am hoping that someday those people will read through the chapters that I will be writing and it will make them stop and think about the awful things that they had done when my mother and I were going through many of these things completely alone knowing that deep down they had never cared for my father or even for me and my mother in the way that they had claimed that they had for the longest time.
Either way, I knew that I would have to do whatever I could to make sure the truth about all of these things had come out, especially when it came to talking about all of the things that had eventually happened after my mother and I had moved into the apartment that we were living in when we had first met Jenn and she had first started all of the trouble that will eventually be mentioned in the pages of the book that you are currently preparing to read. At the time that this introduction was being written I had not been entirely sure whether this book would actually be published in the way that I was thinking or not, but I knew that if I didn’t people would continue to believe the lies that Jenn was always telling after the things that she had actually done. One thing that I knew for certain was that I wanted to make sure that people had found out the truth about Jenn and everything that I had gone through over the years. I knew that talking about certain things would get people to believe that the things I was writing about in this book had been nothing more but lies so that I could get even with certain people for the things that had happened throughout that entire time. Of course, I had already sensed that there would be people out there that would be led to believe everything that Jenn and so many other people had been saying about the things that they had done and once that happened there would be nothing for me to do except write this book and hope that there would be someone out there that would see the truth that has been written about within these pages.
If you are one of the many people who are being led to believe that Jenn was treated unfairly around the time that many of these things had taken place, all that I ask you is to read this book and listen to the things that I am talking about throughout the entire time that this book is being written. There were things that had happened when my mother and I had first met her that definitely would change the way that you would see her, especially after you had learned the truth about everything that she had done throughout that entire time. I know from personal experience that there had been several times that Jenn would say or do whatever she possibly could to get people to honestly feel sorry for her regardless of the different things that she had claimed was happening throughout the times that she had been dealing with all of the problems that had supposedly taken place at different times in her life. I will admit that I was one of the few people that had started to believe the things that she had been saying throughout the entire time that my mother and I had known her. Even though I will be discussing some of the things that Jenn had mentioned to my mother and I when she was attempting to get us to feel sorry for her, which is something that I had noticed on a number of different occasions when she had wanted different things that she had thought that my mother and I would eventually give to her for whatever reason. Jenn would often use her mother and other family members as the reason that certain things had seemed to be happening long before she had moved into the apartment that was upstairs from where my mother and I were living throughout that entire time. Jenn had never seemed to quite grasp the fact that she could not always lie her way out of whatever trouble she was getting into, despite the fact that she was always doing everything that she could to do these things so that she could get her own way or get the things that she had wanted right from the moment that she had seen someone that would eventually start to feel sorry for her because of the terrible things that she had supposedly gone through at different times. The problem was that getting my mother and several other people to realize that Jenn was lying about all these things so that she could get people to feel sorry for her not caring that she would eventually be causing bigger problems for some of the other people that would often be around throughout the entire time that she was doing these things. I am planning on telling people about everything that had happened during that time, whether it is something that will be starting just before the things that had happened when my mother and I had met Jenn and my mother had first believed all of the lies that Jenn had been telling her, or even the things that were taking place after all of these lies had happened and Jenn had seemed to succeed with the things that she was attempting to have happen throughout that entire time.
During the time that I have been thinking about all of these things