Tag: child abuse
member name: Roger Kiser
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October 09, 2007 03:32 AM EDT --
I have written hundreds of stories and many articles, and I have fought for years, trying to tell the world that abuse, of all types, is flaring out of control. It is almost to the point that it cannot . . . more
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August 08, 2007 09:16 AM EDT --
Having been raised most of my young life in a Jacksonville, Florida orphanage, I, along with many other kids, was not familiar with the feeling of ‘love.' ‘Love' was just a . . . more
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November 06, 2007 11:50 AM EST --
The CDs of "AMERICAN ORPHAN" (The best stories of Roger Dean Kiser) just arrived this morning and are now available at: http://www.geocities.com/trampolineone/survive/srv080.htm
The sale of . . . more
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January 11, 2008 01:05 PM EST --
"Hello, Roger. My name is Mrs. McGarvey and I am your friend," said the dark haired woman sitting across from me. "How old are you?"
"I'm 6 now."
"Do you know . . . more
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September 04, 2007 05:05 PM EDT --
I was thirteen years old when I watched the Donna reed show for the first time. I had been living in the Children's Home Society Orphanage in Jacksonville, Florida for almost seven years.
I had no . . . more
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May 16, 2008 09:48 PM EDT --
As I write my stories and can sometimes look back into my past, occasionally I get a glimpse of what I felt as a little boy. I can see myself clearly as a little boy and remember almost everything that . . . more
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October 09, 2007 06:03 PM EDT --
I just wanted to take a moment and thank those of you who purchased one of my books.
I just received a letter from someone on gather who thanked me for the book and CD. I included a free CD of my stories . . . more
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October 25, 2007 08:11 PM EDT --
I don't remember us orphans being worried about getting in trouble with God. God was someone you had to deal with after you were dead. We had a long, long time before we were gonna be dead.
As . . . more
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May 01, 2008 07:45 AM EDT --
It was "May Day." All the children from the Spring Park Elementary School had gathered on the school grounds for the May Day Maypole dance.
This dance involves many short flagpoles, with . . . more
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May 25, 2008 04:53 PM EDT --
"You ever put me in that position again and I'll cut your damn throat. Do you understand that young man?" screamed Mother Winters, the head matron of the Children's Home Society, located . . . more
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November 03, 2007 12:05 PM EDT --
I was a little disappointed when I saw the old buildings were now gone that I had known as a young boy. Every one of them replaced with a high-rise. It had been a long time since I had been to Jacksonville, . . . more
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July 08, 2007 02:18 PM EDT --
What a scared 7-year-old boy I was when after two days, the orphanage finally let me out of that dark closet. I took my bath, brushed my teeth with soap and dressed myself for school in the clothes that . . . more
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July 08, 2007 02:20 PM EDT --
The school bell rang for the third time and I started walking down the hallway toward my Grade 3 classroom door. I never went into the classroom before the bell rang, because other children in my class . . . more
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July 08, 2007 02:22 PM EDT --
How horrible it was to have to wear a sheet wrapped around ones self like a diaper for having wet the bed. In addition, then having to walk the horrible, long 2,000 yards to the dining room at the far . . . 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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September 15, 2007 02:21 PM EDT --
I am not really sure how I feel about Foster Parents. Most of my life was spent in a Jacksonville, Florida orphanage. I did go to a foster home for about three months, when I was about twelve years old. . . . more
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September 19, 2007 05:13 PM EDT --
I guess I was eight or nine years old when I went to the beach for the very first time.
Living in an orphanage we kids never got to do much of anything, especially any of the fun things that other children . . . more
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October 19, 2007 09:08 PM EDT --
I suppose most children are raised in what society considers being ‘a normal lifestyle.' Once leaving home they head out into the world and try to create, as best they can, a lifestyle based . . . more
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November 02, 2007 10:02 PM EDT --
"I'm going to tell you boys something right now," said Mother Winters, the head matron of the orphanage where we lived. "I'm going to tell you one time and one time only. If you . . . more
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January 16, 2008 06:46 PM EST --
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I have always considered myself just a regular old fellow.
I live in a twenty-two year old doublewide mobile home, in Brunswick, Georgia; drive a truck . . . more
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