No, My Brother, I am My Brother

By Collen Plummer

My brother was almost two years older than me. I was born June '56, while he was born May of '54. My uncle used to call me *ME TOO* because I always wanted to do everything like my brother, so I ended up with the name *ME TOO*.

In junior high school and high school, I started to beat him in basketball, and in racing, he was faster in the shorter distance and I was faster in a longer distance. Then I became faster in the shortest distance; that's when we formed a relay team that has about ten to twelve national records. We ended up competing against each other more than our opponents, and I don't know why.

The biggest achievement as a relay team together was Jesse Owens giving us our medals at Spectrum even though breaking that national record and breaking national record at Madison Square Garden within the same week, I lost a lot of scholarships for reasons I still do not know.

You better have the Lord in your life because the decisions and choices you make in life, you are going to need God. I knew that Fortune 500 companies had tuition reimbursement, so when one door closes in life, another door opens in life, just as long as you have the Lord with you; that's the only way I can make it. Thank you, Jesus!

Then I end up developing life-saving products with two patents for Johnson & Johnson, saving lives. God is good. Thank you, Jesus.

Witnessing a black man having the life choked out of him for ten minutes by a white policeman is one of the main reasons why I wrote this book, because I develop products that save lives and here goes the white man choking the life out of another black man for no reason.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781637104354

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No, My Brother, I am My Brother

Collen Plummer

Copyright © 2021 Collen Plummer

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First Edition

Fulton Books, Inc.

Meadville, PA

Published by Fulton Books 2021

ISBN 978-1-63710-434-7 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63710-435-4 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

One of the main things I can ever tell a child or parent is that remembering the Lord's name, even before you remember your name, will go a long way in life.

That means putting God in your life as soon as possible, and I do believe somebody had to die for our sins, who is Jesus Christ.

For the longest time, I couldn't really understand that concept, but somehow just studying the word, one way or another either from TV watching, Joyce Meyers, for probably about thirty years everything started to register. I have her DVR every day for those thirty minutes. I try to listen to her in the morning; she's so uplifting.

What really caught my attention to this particular evangelist is that she was assaulted by her father over two hundred times as a child.

I started recording her on my DVR every day for the last twenty years, so most of the time I watch her in the mornings, and she's very uplifting; she's a realist, like so many other evangelists, but somehow, she caught my attention. I always say to myself how can somebody go through that as a child and turn out on the top like she did, so therefore, I wanted to really get into her testimony.

Almost Burned Down the House

When I was in third grade, I was always inquisitive. I used to love matches, so I was always playing around with matches and found out that rubbing alcohol was flammable. So I was walking across the kitchen floor with some alcohol in cap on fire, and I spilled some on the floor, so the tile started to bubble. I knew I was finished. I could not cover that up, and my brother was watching me and said to me, You can't cover this up, so I knew I needed God because my father was one of those Jamaicans that don't play. I was headed toward the Juvenile Delinquent Center because they thought that I was going to kill everybody in the house, so I knew I was done, but I knew I needed God to help me at that age.

I knew I was in some serious trouble with my mom because I thought I was a chemist when I found out that alcohol is flammable and I'm a firebug.

I thought for sure they were going to take me to the Juvenile Detention Center but that Christmas my Mom bought me a chemistry kit. I took that chemistry kit in the basement.

I wore that chemistry kit out. I didn't know what I was doing, but I wore it out.

Twenty years later, I'm developing lifesaving products for Johnson & Johnson.

One day, my brother and I were coming home