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Michele Weldon. I Closed My Eyes
I Closed My Eyes. Revelations of A Battered Woman. Michele Weldon
Dedication
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Card received on our fourth anniversary, August 23, 1990
PART ONE
I Closed My Eyes
Card received on June 6, 1993
The Perfect Husband
Card received on our eighth anniversary, August 23, 1994
Fiesta Forever
Card received on Christmas Day, 1989
What Did You Do to Make Him Mad?
Card received on January 2, 1988
Ice-Cream Sodas on the Hood
Card received on January 17, 1995
Masquerade
Card received on March 29, 1993
The Suitcase under the Bed
Card received on April 9, 1992
Pawnshops, Discover Card, and His Checking Account
Card received on Christmas, 1992
The Power to Change Him
PART TWO
Card received on Christmas, 1990
We Are Family
Card received on July 23, 1993
It Was Crowded
Card received on September 7, 1987
$18,000 and the 1987 Porsche
Card received on my birthday, June 5, 1989
A Safe Place
Card received on July 28, 1993
Daddy Envy
Card received on Christmas, 1991
Sixty-Five Tears per Hour
Card received on Valentine’s Day, 1991
Gathering Strength
PART THREE
Card received on May 30, 1989
Letting Go of Fear
Card received on April 10, 1995
What Do You Know to Be True?
Card received on June 5, 1992
Double Parent
Card received on our sixth anniversary, August 23, 1992
The Color Apricot
Card received on February 2, 1994
Packing for the Afterlife
Card received on December 16, 1992
Thanksgiving
Afterword
About the Author
Excerpt: Escape Points
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For my late mother, Mama Pat, who urged me to write it all down, and my late father, Papa Bill, who taught me to live life with an open heart.
And of course, for, Weldon, Brendan and Colin, who have grown into great men.
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The message is that I believe you can create a meaningful and joyful life when faced with many difficulties.
“There is an alchemy in sorrow,” Pearl Buck wrote. “It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not being joy, can yet bring happiness.”
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