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Don't Call Me Mother

A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness

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Don't Call Me Mother

By: Linda Joy Myers
Narrated by: Sara Morsey
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"I wanted to tell the secret stories that my great-grandmother Blanche whispered to me on summer nights in a featherbed in Iowa. I was eight and she was eighty...."

At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas, watching a train take her mother away. For the rest of her life, her mother will be an only occasional—and always troubled—visitor who denies her the love she longs for.

Linda Joy Myers’s compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir tells the story of three generations of daughters who, though determined to be different from their absent mothers, ultimately follow in their footsteps, recreating a pattern that they yearn to break. Accompany Linda as she uncovers family secrets, seeks solace in music, and begins her healing journey—ultimately transcending the prison of her childhood and finding forgiveness for her family and herself.

This edition includes a new afterword in which Myers confronts her family’s legacy and comes full circle with her daughter and grandchildren, seeding a new path for them.

©2013 Linda Joy Myers (P)2023 Linda Joy Myers Parenting & Families Relationships Women

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....while living a much different nearly 70 years myself, I still found an amazing emotional link throughout, realizing pain and isolation and trauma evoke sensations that cross the too many troubled childhoods and lives so many of us share...and a level of acceptance and understanding not all do come to. Thanks for sharing your life!

An intense, honest and thought provoking story

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