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They say that your position in your family influences your choices of career, and how you approach life in general. I do know that you are stuck with your position regardless of how old you are. The oldest will always be the one in charge and they youngest will always be treated as the baby, even when everybody is over 60. As the youngest of seven siblings, I decided to turn the tables and take charge. Our family stories were in danger of being lost forever until I hijacked my sister's notes to publish The Gordons of Tallahassee. My remaining brothers also have stories to tell, and I hope that this project will spur them on to completion. My own memoir, Motherless Child, stories from a life is my first published work, a coming-of-age-in-the-sixties-single-black-pregnant and on the way to Germany story.
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The Gordons of Tallahassee

The Gordons of TallahasseeThe Gordons of Tallahassee (book)

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Family stories are easily lost, especially in these times when children leave home and move far and wide from the place where it all began. Family reunions are times when the old stories may be repeated, but the young ones often don’t listen. Some stories are never retold because of embarrassment or feelings of shame, and the failure to recognize that regardless of how dour our circumstances may have been, that was where we came from. Even our mixed heritage should be a source of our strength. My siblings and I often heard the stories of our grandmother, Mattie. My sister LaVerne, as the oldest had the foresight to write down the story as told by our Mother before she died in 1958.
Motherless Child - stories from a life

Motherless Child - stories from a lifeMotherless Child - stories from a life (book)

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Imagine you gave a baby up for adoption forty years ago, and after years of trying to find her, she finds you. Now come the hard questions. She's healthy, beautiful, and successful, but she wants to know why you gave her away and why you didn't marry her father. And there is also the unspoken question of "What kind of black woman gives her baby away?" How do you explain to her that giving her away was the best gift you could offer? This is Sarah Weathersby's first published work, a coming-of-age-in-the-sixties-single-black-pregnant and on the way to Germany, memoir.