Remembering To Forget
~A Mother And Daughter's Journey After Suicide~
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All I ever wanted was to be a wife and mother; to be loved, needed, and wanted. I was dealt that hand, yet little did I know that the rules of the game that I had learned, all too young, would apply more so in the survival of not only myself, but for a child that I so desperately wanted to give that perfect hand to.
Life, as I use to view it, was for the most part about chance, and perhaps a bit of destiny, if you believe in that kind of stuff. Genetics, I feel, does play a significant part in ones life. However, whether it is by chance or destiny I do feel that we all have some control over what happens in our life. What throws the odds off, as in cards, is when you allow or willingly give your heart and soul to someone else; you give that person power and domain over the influences of your own life.
This is where the similarity between poker and life come to play. You have to learn when to bluff, you have to learn when to fold, and there are times when you have to learn to kiss your buttocks for the ride of life is going to be a bumpy.
In most hands of poker you are allowed to, at least, give two cards back in hopes of getting better ones. In real life, however, the cards you are dealt are the cards that are played. Very rarely if at all, do we get a chance to go back and do over. Regardless, a person has to play the hand of which they are given to the best of their ability.
Unless you had foresight of seeing the future there is no way of knowing how to choose to play the cards you are dealt. Although you may not have the best of hand . . . how you play it determines survival or folding and giving up.
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About the Book
Remembering To Forget is a vivid and evocative story based on the true accounts of Ashleigh Moore’s existence. Enduring a path of isolation feeling betrayed by her friends and family while grieving for the life that was taken and the future she no longer can give her daughter. Her journey takes her back to face an anguished childhood where the steps of healing some of the most haunting revelations begin. Finding depression to be a friendship with the devil himself she begins the voyage under the cloud stigma that suicide leaves behind. The endless tunnel takes every ounce of life with in her to survive the many obstacles placed in her path. The innocence of her four year old daughter was for ever changed with a decision that neither of them could alter. The choices and sacrifices that she makes to support and comfort her daughter’s already traumatized heart. The world as they both new it had no beginning and no ending. A maze of webbed emotions that she alone had to over come with her daughter by her side; Always asking . . . how do you raise a daughter after a suicide? This is a compelling true story of a women and mother's journey of unconditional love, loss, betrayal, ultimate guts and tenacity for the survival of herself and her daughter after her husband takes his own life. Hers is a story of triumph against diverse odds. Ashleigh finds within her blazing fierce Irish determination to fight for a new life for her and her daughter on her own terms.
About the Author
With an Irish/German heritage, Ashleigh Moore became an orphan at the age of seven. Growing up in the Midwest region of
The complications of her disadvantaged childhood were further compounded when she later suffered the loss of her husband and father of her child to suicide.
Committed to changing obstacles to opportunities and providing a better life for her daughter, Ashleigh became an advocate not only for the prevention of suicide, but for the survivors of suicide as well.
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