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    From Within
    From Within
    From Within
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    From Within

    By LaFreddie B

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    Poetic expression of heart felt emotions during a time of tragedy, crisis, heartbreak, and rebirth. LaFreddie B lays it all on the line as he shares his real emotions during a very dark period of his life. Putting those raw emotions to poetry reopened wounds of the past thirty years of his life for total and complete healing.

    From Within allows you to share in his experience through poetry and receive healing in your own life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLaFreddie B
    Release dateSep 17, 2011
    ISBN9780982739136
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    LaFreddie B

    As the author formally known as LaFreddie b, LaFredrick is a native of Clarendon, Arkansas my family migrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin after my parents separated in 1988. I grew up in what was considered the worse part of the inner city in the early 90's. In school, I was always considered a good student but I hated English. I hated everything about it, reading novels, writing essays and term papers. I especially hated the while adjective/adverb thing. And being an author was never on my list of "when I grow" things. However, even when I felt that I didn't understand anything in my English and Literature classes, I'd always surprise myself with B's and C's when I thought I would get D's and F's. After graduating from Washington High School in 2000, I went on to University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff to major in Business Administration. I returned home at the end of my first semester to be with my family after they stuffed a house fire Thanksgiving weekend. I entered the work force at 19 full time in hopes of one day returning to college to complete my degree. It was while I was at work one day that the author bug bit me. When I first starting writing Long Distance Relations I never thought that it would morph into a book. It was just busy work, something to help pass the time on those long boring days that I had little to no work to do. After printing it out and sticking in a box for years with little to no intention of publishing it, I ran across it after the real story behind LDR changed. After spending some time reflecting on that story and how the real life story turned out, I realized that this was a story that so many people can relate to. I self published with a print-on-demand company in September 2009. Now after a lot of dissatisfaction with that experience, I'm currently in the process of republishing LDR on my own with prayers of building my own publishing empire helping others achieve their dream of adding "published author" to their resume.

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      From Within - LaFreddie B

      From Within

      C opyright ©2011 by LaFreddie B

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Creative Direction: LaFreddie B

      Photography: Brian Rose

      Book Design: LaFreddie B

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

      ISBN: Paperback 9780982739112 ebook 97809827391

      Dedication: To total and complete healing from yesterday.

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Introduction

      Poetry

      Disclaimer

      Truth Hurts

      Victory Chant

      Last of a Dying Breed

      New Love

      Childhood Crush

      Gold Digger

      Yo Fatha

      Question

      Desire For Quiet

      Sorry

      No Signs of You

      Fear Produces Laziness

      Vision of Hope

      Playing Games

      Get This Straight

      Secrets vs Skeletons

      Happiness

      Acknowledgements

      Preface

      W

      hen I was fourteen, I received my first job that yielded a paycheck. My mother was in it by herself to raise my sisters and I. She would often reach her financial breaking point with us. And like most parents, she did it without complaint. To help her out, I would use that paycheck – all of $75 – to put a few things in my closet or a pair of shoes on my feet. Whatever I was able to do for myself, it blessed my mother to the core of her being because I never complained in the process.

      After about six months to a year of doing this I look in my closet and realized that I had nothing that represented where I came from or what little I knew about my home state. My next trip to the mall was with the intentions of changing that. I needed an Arkansas t-shirt, sweater, jacket, hat, anything – it didn’t matter. It wasn’t that I thought of Arkansas as this gorgeous state or the best place to live or anything like that, but just to show that we natives still knew who we were even after leaving the homestead. I’m an Arkansian by birth and I’m proud of that fact.

      I left the mall that day with two t-shirts. The one that I remember the most was white with a divided box on it – sort of like the one you see on the back of a DVD case where you would find the

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