I Know My Way Memoir (eBook)

Always Remember to Color the Sky Blue

Theresa Marafito, Linda Odubayo Thompson (Autoren)

Pedro Odubayo Thompson (Herausgeber)

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2018 | 1., First
396 Seiten
Linda Odubayo Thompson (Verlag)
9781732209633 (ISBN)

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Who was Theresa Marafito? Theresa Marafito, daughter of Irish immigrant parents, was born in 1933 in New York City, blind in one eye with partial vision in the other. She was a precocious child who wanted to appear ';normal' to her peers and family, regardless of her disability. Her game was to be independent, not dependent and would rarely ask for help. At nineteen she graduated magna cum laude with two master's degrees. Theresa and her husband Jerry, who was also visually impaired, would build a house on a shoestring budget and had two daughters; one who was also born visually impaired. Despite the laughter and happiness that was ever present in their home and business serving the public, Theresa's marriage was strong enough to endure one operation after another in a desperate attempt to keep her from becoming totally blind, plus the horror of watching her infant daughter's agony of being put under the knife. In late 1986, Theresa's perfect world came to a crashing halt when her soul mate Jerry lost his life to cancer. She was so devastated that she poured her heart out on an old manual typewriter trying to capture all of her precious memories. It was after her very tragic death in 2008 that the notes were found and became the starting point of this memoir. Reader Engagement: 396 pages with 55 photos to aid in your reading enjoymentContact Co-Author Linda Odubayo Thompson: [e-mail]

Inhalt

Table of contents: Table of Contents ForewordPart 1: My Early Years 1933–1945Part 2: Coming of Age 1945–1948Part 3: The Apron Strings Become Untied! 1949–1953Part 4: Love and Marriage 1954–1956Part 5: Soon the Stork Will Make a Delivery! April 1955–January 3, 1956Part 6: “There’s No Place like Home!” April 1956–October 10, 1958Part 7: Memories of an Unusual Play Time Activity! 1958–1963Part 8: Our “Coming Out” Party in the Community Summer–Fall 1963Part 9: One Moment in Time Changed My Life Forever! Christmas 1963–Spring 1964Part 10: Two Weeks Spent at a Special Summer Camp Summer 1964Part 11: Stand by Your Man! It Happened in the Spring of 1966Part 12: Hurrah for Us, My Jerry Had the Midas Touch!        The Golden Years Began in 1967Part 13: Would My Faith in God See Me Through, Yet Again?          The Year of Our Lord, 1970Part 14: The Four Day Squeeze! Spring–Summer 1971Part 15: Where There Is Death There Are New Beginnings! 1972–1982Part 16: 1986, the Year My Perfect World Crashed and Burned!        Would I Ever Recover from This Terrible Loss?Part 17: Look! There’s a Ray of Sunshine Peeking Through the Storm Clouds! 1987–2002Part 18: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust March 18, 2008AfterwordRecognitionsAcknowledgementsAbout the Co-Author Recommendations:

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.10.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Schlagworte: disability memoirs • Disability person biography • Disabled women's memoirs • family and relationships • Grief loss and spirituality • Inspirational female memoirs • Inspiring female memoirs • Memoirs about blind person
• ISBN-13: 9781732209633 / 9781732209633