It's Been A Hard Life, I Just Make It LOOK Good
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This was by far the single most horrible day of my life. Nothing can ever prepare you for the day you lose your mother. I stood there in a daze watching my mama on that stretcher, stroking the face of death—praying that she would wake up from this dream (even though I would have shitted a brick had she done that)!! As we all departed from the hospital after saying our goodbyes, the ride back to Nina’s house was even colder than the ride to the hospital. Tears traveled the entire distance of my face, filling my lap with the coldest moisture I’d ever felt—even colder than Wisconsin’s snow. How could God take my mama from me within only a couple months of my returning back home? You know that old saying, “everything happens for a reason?” Well, “God, if you could please be so kind to put a rush on revealing the reason for this, cuz I don’t see how in the hell You expect me to capitalize off of this shit.” I quickly slipped deeply into a depression. I was on top of the world and in one moment that world was instantly torn apart. I couldn’t think, work, sleep, or eat. Hell, I could barely breathe! The breaths I did take were the shallowest breaths I’d ever taken—known specifically to a COPD patient.
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This book tells the story of a young woman who grew up in a poor, single parent home, surrounded by drugs, violence, and welfare recipients. K'Dee was known to be smart, academically, but the question was: Did she have common sense? K'Dee has always aspired to have the finer things; however, life had a different plan. At a young age, she ran from her problems until she built up the courage to face them head on with prayer, perseverance, and persistence. If you want to know how she survived the pain, hurt, and agony of an abusive marriage, managed a family while moving ten times in one year, overcame depression, coped with the death of her mother, battled her own illness, and conquered love, while chasing her dreams...it's all here! Through it all, people wondered how she could wear a smile on her face, dress like a millionaire, and still be thankful to God. Through all that K’Dee was challenged with, she came out on the other side of life with self-esteem, expectations and standards as high as Mount Everest. This humorous, yet serious self-examination of K’Dee’s life is no exception to the hard work she produces.
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About K'DEE: Registered Nurse, Hair Stylist, and Author. I'm perfectly imperfect. I'm everything and nothing simultaneously. I'm a mother who doesn't always have the answer. A sister who doesn't call all of the time. An aunt who forgets birthdays. A friend who's sometimes too busy to provide a shoulder, and a wife who's not always right, just never wrong. I'm fearful in the presence of danger and courageous in the Lord. I cry when I'm sad and laugh if I'm happy. Sometimes in confusion I may even transpose emotions, crying in my happiness while suppressing my sorrow with a smile. Most days I function at 90% leaving you wishing you could give me back to the man who boldly gave me away the other 10% of the time. All because Im flawed between the surfaces. No one knows better than I my imperfections and I transparently expose them so you never feel the need to and in hopes that you'll love me despite and past them. More importantly, praying that you never become disappointed if/when I'm anything less than perfect; I'm human; I'm not offering you perfection. I'm perfectly imperfect! Will you still love me? By K'Dee Talley