Tag: mayme winters
member name: Roger Kiser
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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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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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August 16, 2008 01:35 PM EDT --
Well, many of my gather friends suggested that I take ten days to think things over before deciding to close our home child advocate's office. The individual who flagged my article, advising people . . . more
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August 24, 2007 11:17 AM EDT --
It had been many a year since I stood in front of Preston's Drug store. It is located where Beach and Atlantic Boulevard come together on the south side of Jacksonville, Florida.
This was the store . . . more
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April 12, 2008 04:41 PM EDT --
If I had to choose just one person who has affected my life more than any other individual, it would have to be Mayme Winters or "Mother Winters," as we called her at the orphanage.
I am not . . . 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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July 03, 2008 12:48 PM EDT --
This is a very unusual story. It is one that is very difficult for me to tell. Not only because of the incident itself but trying to tell the story in such a manner that it is not crude or disrespectful. . . . more
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September 12, 2007 05:20 PM EDT --
"What's wrong with you?" I asked Benjamin as I walked into his bedroom at the orphanage.
He said not a word as he lay across his bed. He was crying as loud as he could. I just stood there . . . 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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August 30, 2007 02:33 PM EDT --
THE PRETTY ONE
It had been a very long night. Our black Cocker Spaniel, Precious, was having a difficult delivery. I lied on the floor beside her large four-foot square cage watching her every movement . . . 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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June 23, 2007 03:10 PM EDT --
All twenty-six of us boys walked in a straight line over to the main orphanage building and filed onto the breezeway porch and took a seat on the cement floor across the aisle from the girls. When instructed, . . . more
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August 14, 2008 11:48 AM EDT --
Hopefully, by expressing my opinion, as well as my feelings about this subject, I am not lessoning what the term slavery actually means. I know that many African Americans suffered greatly at the hands . . . more
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October 04, 2007 09:28 PM EDT --
Life in the Children's Home Society Orphanage in Jacksonville, Florida was not an easy life at all. Actually, Army life was, to some extent, much easier than was my life in the orphanage. In the Army; . . . 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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May 16, 2008 09:57 PM EDT --
If there was ever a time when I, as a child, felt totally worthless because of the actions of an adult, it would have to be when I stood before Mother Winters, the head matron of the Children's Home . . . more
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May 18, 2008 01:56 PM EDT --
Having been raised my entire childhood in The Children's Home Society, located in Jacksonville, Florida; we children were not reared to become loving individuals. Love was not part of the orphanage . . . more
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September 15, 2007 03:01 PM EDT --
Sometimes it is very difficult for me to write something that will allow the readers of my stories to comprehend a certain point that I am trying to make. I hope this short story makes a very important . . . more
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November 09, 2007 09:34 PM EST --
After I was released from the Florida School for Boys at Marianna (reform school), I was locked up in the juvenile hall for months. I refused to ever return to the Children's Home Society. I was not . . . more
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