A Change of Story

By Samuel Washington

What made me write the book?

I started writing the book around the age of eighteen. I was a single parent. I've been through a lot, and it just kept eating me up inside. To tell my side of what I experienced, I am here to tell my story. I really want to let people know that they are not alone in what they are going through, and hopefully my story may be a huge inspiration to be a great help in their life. May God bless you all.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 11, 2024
• ISBN: 9798887638522

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Table of Contents

Title

Copyright

Foreword

The Birth

Get the Meaning

Keep Your Grass Cut Low

The Road to God's House

Keep Calm

Sidebar Jokes

In Memory of When I Cared

Priceless

A Wife

Parent

The Birth Continues

Getting the Meaning

The Road to God's House Continues

Keeping Calm

The Friendship

Death of a Parent

A Moment of Silence

The Blumberg Memories

The Crack House

Present Day

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A Change of Story

Samuel Washington

Copyright © 2023 Samuel Washington

All rights reserved

First Edition

NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING

320 Broad Street

Red Bank, NJ 07701

First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2023

ISBN 979-8-88763-851-5 (Paperback)

ISBN 979-8-88763-852-2 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

To God. I want to dedicate this book to him. I want to thank him for allowing me to be alive and able to tell my story, knowing I could have been dead.

What made me write the book? Everyone has a story to tell, I just happen to be a person that want to tell everyone my story. I also want to dedicate this book to Blumberg projects at Twenty-Third and Jefferson in North Philadelphia. Without the projects, there would not be a change of story #blumforlife, #yeadow.

Foreword

The book The Change of Story is full of beautiful stories that will touch your heart.

Many of the stories were touching and humorous, and I love the part where the author talks about the Bible, families, and people who have impacted his life as being priceless.

That makes me think that if we can truly appreciate the priceless gifts in our lives, we will learn to embrace the lifestyle of gratitude which leads to fulfillment.

This is a must-read book; it will open up your consciousness to the fact that in each passing day, as you live, you are writing the story of your life, which can only be written once in eternity.

Judith Daniel Imagoro

Marriage and restoration expert, lead pastor at Restoration Life Church

New Jersey, United States

Author of Turning Marital Crisis into Bliss; How to Know, Choose, and Treat a Husband to Love You Forever; The Supernatural Eyes (The Gifts of Knowing and Seeing); and Meeting the Angels That Are Waiting for Your Command

The Birth

The year 1978 was the year it all began. He said he remembered taking his first drink of liquor at the age of three. It was vodka, then he goes on talking saying he believes it was the cheap kind, then he said as it was going down that he can feel the burning in his chess. Now at five years old, he and his outside playmates around his age were downstairs at the projects where they lived, eating the free breakfast and lunch in the summertime.

The insane part is they are always fighting with each other like it was a recreational thing. The place he was raised had everything that comes under the word negativity. Yes, I said it, a place not positive and helpful, and motivation was created from watching TV, assuming reality hit him and proving the plan to oppress people were true.

The oppression is alive and well, he said this to his friends. Of course, the reply was one of the most no-knowledge, uneducated, not-knowing questions they could think of like, How do you know they are trying to control us?

Thomas asked, You mean to tell me we are something used in an experiment or study to provide and check on the results?

Upset with a reply, I said, We are living in a highrise building with eighteen floors and nine units on each floor. And we have three buildings, plus at least 180 row homes. In short-term words, it's called a project. Which means a group of houses or apartment buildings built according to a single plan.

Of course, the questions kept coming.

Mary, our tomboy friend of the crew, asked, What's the plan?

Okay, so now, Jeff said, the rumor has it that if they put enough of us as in people in the condition of being poor, lack of money or possessions, or of something desirable, put them together and label them poverty. Also, with this rumor, they made the decision to have the teachers in those areas follow a guideline and teach them the past but restrict them in a way that they couldn't understand the future to become successful.

Shotgun joined in and asked, What do they call that?

And now Jimmy replied, Suppressed.

So the ones that asked the questions replied by saying, Oh.

Then another girl named Kim asked, What does it mean?

Jimmy went on to say, Hold back. Out of nowhere, he kept on going and said, To limit movement, contain. To have or keep under one's control, restrain. To keep you in boundaries, there's a dividing line—he shook his head—and it's called lower class, middle class, and upper class. The lower classes are known as having less value. The middle classes are known as equally distant from lower and higher. The upper class represents more than usual importance, having specified elevation; a greater degree, size, amount, or cost than average.

Get the Meaning

There was