Keeping the faith
She sits quietly, an attractive and soft-spoken woman. At first glance, she appears to be like any other person you’d meet. Inside, however, is a much different story. Sixty-six-year-old Barbara Smith (not her real name) wanted to share her story with us, to share with our readers. It’s a story of hardship and heartbreak, love and light, falling down and getting back up again.
Smith’s childhood was not an easy one, growing up in a tumultuous home with her mother. She started working at the young age of 12, before moving out at 16. She described her childhood as something you’d read about in books, and something she was hesitant to share here. At 17, she married, later giving birth to two sons with her first husband, who, she later found out, was a violent man. It was then that she experienced the first signs of PTSD. (By Liz Small)
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