Tag: runaways
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September 27, 2008 06:31 AM EDT --
Way back when New Wave music began I was a teenager, away from home from for the first time. Like all teenagers I knew it all. Not like all teenagers, i was wild. College for me had . . . more
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October 28, 2006 01:10 AM EDT --
A silent ripple passed through the ether of our existence this week. It should have at least been a drum roll. Or a cherry bomb.
Sandy West, drummer for the Runaways, died this week at age 47 . . . more
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February 01, 2008 11:27 AM EST --
Writer Charles Bock grew up in Las Vegas, and didn't much like it. He spent afternoons reading comic books in the family pawnshop. He watched desperate customers curse and shout at his parents . . . more
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April 27, 2006 05:59 PM EDT --
This is Connie L. Lingus for channel 47 news.
A few days ago we brought you the story of Froggy Gordon of Lake Villa Illinois. Frog had gone walkabout and our very own Twinkles McBuff braved the . . . more
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June 15, 2008 10:04 AM EDT --
Til Death Do Us Part
Between the ages of six and fifteen, I had witnessed two murders, possibly three. I had seen at least ten dead bodies lying in the street, all while living on the streets, and . . . more
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June 28, 2007 07:40 PM EDT --
Lately, I have come to find out people are much more apt to read light-hearted banter here on Gather rather than the more intense and argumentative subjects such as politics and/or religion. They . . . more
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September 14, 2007 10:50 PM EDT --
Every now and then I come across a book that can move mountains.
This is such a book. . . . more
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August 15, 2007 06:40 PM EDT --
I am in the process of self-publishing my book "RUNAWAY-Life on the Streets (The lessons learned)".
For almost ten years I have written stories and books which deal with children . . . more
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August 26, 2007 09:42 AM EDT --
A TRUE STORY
By the age of four, Roger Dean Kiser had been abandoned, first by his parents and then his grandparents and placed in a Jacksonville, Florida orphanage. Unable to adapt to the difficult, . . . more
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October 23, 2007 01:30 PM EDT --
A light snow was beginning to fall in Amarillo as Carolyn and Kurt stepped off the bus that had been their home for the past three and a half days. Even at 11:00 pm, the Amarillo Greyhound bus station . . . more
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June 16, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
When his father lost his job in 1931, Jim Mitchell saw his family slide to rock bottom in . . . more
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September 06, 2007 12:49 PM EDT --
My book "Runaway-Life on the Streets-The lessons learned" has finally been released.
First off, I would like to thank those of my friends who pre-ordered a copy. I really appreciate you doing . . . more
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September 07, 2007 06:35 PM EDT --
"Are you sure this is what you want? Being raised in a orphanage has not prepared you for a normal family life. Is this going to make you happy?" asked Mrs. Usher, my foster mother.
"I . . . more
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September 20, 2007 01:01 PM EDT --
I do not think I was ever what you would call a criminal. I do not know if convicted of a few felonies when one is young, classifies you as an honest-to-goodness-criminal. To me, a real criminal is someone . . . more
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September 24, 2007 12:11 PM EDT --
For many years I had worked toward this day and finally the young boy's visit was scheduled.
Walking back and forth, I watched out my front window waiting for nine-year-old Jimmy to arrive from the . . . more
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September 12, 2007 05:39 PM EDT --
At 14 years of age, the Duval County Juvenile Court allowed me to take a room at a boarding house over on Market Street. They had already sent me to the Florida School for Boys Reform School for 11 months, . . . more
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November 26, 2007 10:55 PM EST --
As a young boy, I lived on the streets of a large city (Jacksonville, Florida) for almost six years. If you know of a teenager who is in trouble or might runaway; my book "Runaway-Life on the . . . more
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December 02, 2007 11:07 PM EST --
It was November the 20, 1953 and I remember the day very well. It was my birthday and I had just turned eight years old. I was rather excited when the closet door opened as I had not seen daylight for . . . more
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December 10, 2007 08:18 PM EST --
I was a bit scared when my grandchildren landed at the Jacksonville International Airport. It had been fifteen years since I had seen my son who was living in a small Eskimo village in Selawik, Alaska. . . . more
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December 24, 2007 06:11 PM EST --
There are always a few who are in a bad mood during the Christmas season but this year it almost seems like an epidemic. People pushing, cursing and screaming at one another as if they were the only one's . . . more
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