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    In the Words of My Life
    In the Words of My Life
    In the Words of My Life
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    In the Words of My Life

    By Deborah Reid

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    This book was also a dream of hers; not to be famous or to sell a million copies, but for the purpose of having something for the generations after her and those closest to her to share and reminisce. The inspiration for this book is for those that miss her more than she will ever know. She was taken from us way too soon, but her words can live on through this book...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateSep 23, 2022
    ISBN9781669846048
    In the Words of My Life
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    Deborah Reid

    Deborah Reid was born on May 21, 1957, to her parents Irene Nelson and Murkland O'Kelley. She grew up on the Northside of Pittsburgh around family and friends. She was the first person in her family to attend college and got her associates degree in Applied Science from the Community College of Allegheny County in 1991. She married Glynn Reid on November 6, 1982. Together they had three sons; Jamar Maurice “Shittle Boy”, twins Joshua Martel “Smoogie” and Justin Marcus “Kissy Face”. She also had four grandchildren. Deborah had a handful of things she loved; from going out on one of Pittsburgh's riverboat cabarets to playing her daily and evening lotto numbers with scratchies to racking up some money on penny slots at the casino to hosting cookouts for family and friends to playing Tiger Woods on Xbox 360 to playing cards including bid, whist and spades. Lastly, she loved talking on the phone to anybody, especially her sister, Lynette Devers better known as “Agnes” only to her sister Deborah was a beloved wife, mother and grandmother and like family to just about anyone she knew. This book is her life in poems, in her words, through pain, joy, struggle, and perseverance.

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      In the Words of My Life - Deborah Reid

      Copyright © 2022 by Jamar Reid.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Rev. date: 09/23/2022

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      CONTENTS

      To The People

      The Rainbow of Life

      The Cost of Living

      I Got The Will

      The Mind

      No Turning Back

      Soap Operas

      Happy Birthday To Me

      To A Woman

      To a New Beginning

      A Dream

      Love Can Never Be Captured

      The Way Things Ought To Be

      What Love Has Joined Together

      How Do You Feel About Me?

      Message to Love

      That’s Why This Can’t Be Love

      We Were Meant For Each Other

      Understanding One Another

      The Shadow of Love

      Summer Love

      I Who Want to Love

      A Dream of Reality

      If You Can Dig This

      Sharing For One Another

      To You With Love

      Whatever Your Needs Are?

      You Made Me What I Am

      You’re The Picture

      My Dreams Are Yours

      Nothing Takes the Place of You

      So True, So Blue, But No You!

      Understand Me Black Man

      When There’s No One To Love

      What Is This Called

      The Super-fly Bag

      Hey Black Brothers, Come Down Off Your High

      Make Up For Lost Time

      Brothers, Brothers, Brothers!

      I’m Calling on You?

      From Woman to Man

      The Promised Land

      Misery!

      Afraid To Live, And So Afraid To Die!

      Tomorrow Promise!

      I Just Want My Freedom

      My Life

      Farewell My Love

      For My Love 6-4-92

      Passion Flower

      My Friend

      Don’t Blame Me!

      Making it Better

      Life Goes On

      Crush Groove

      Poison Veins 3-13-91

      I Love You

      Tear Me Down

      Dream Come True!

      King of Hearts!

      Sympathy

      God Almighty

      Then Let It Go!!! 8-10-91

      Break-Down 7-17-91

      Secret Love 7-25-91

      Haunted Dreams 7-13-91

      Tonight 7-11-91

      Separated From The Rest (unfinished) 4-14-91

      Valentine of my Soul

      When I Pray

      Burning Desire 8-18-91

      Love Potion

      A Midnight Letter

      Now And Then 9-3-92

      2-Kool 8-19-92

      Silent Prayer 9-29-93

      Not The Same 9-29-93

      A Questionnare?

      Grow up Little Boy! 10-2-93

      From the Bottom of my Heart 10-8-93

      The Danger Zone 10-12-93

      Sincerely Yours 10-26-93

      T.I.G. 10-12-93

      Unconditional Love 10-30-93

      Give My Love a Try 8-9-98

      I am a Victim 7-19-93

      Another Emergency 11-3-93

      Do You Know Him 12-29-96

      I Thought You Knew 5-16-08

      I Love You a Thousand Times 2-23-96

      Looking Glass 2-4-92

      Desert Storm War!!!

      Love Letter

      Jamar Maurice, Jr.

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      To The People

      To the people who don’t know me well,

      Can you judge me and have the right to tell

      Others about me who look, and observe,

      Misjudging people takes a lot of nerve,

      To the people that can really see,

      The value of life has its variety,

      To each its own to search, and to find,

      To take care of yours and not worry about mine.

      Whatever it may be!

      The Rainbow of Life

      Love, is red, for its heart to give to me as a work of art,

      Understanding, is yellow, for its brightness to understand the meaning of happiness,

      Trust, is green, for its inspiration to trust you with my thoughts of deep meditation,

      Faith, is orange, for its warmness to accept from me for my forgiveness,

      Affection, is purple, for its deepest, to cure my emotions, for its highest,

      Competition, in pink, for its togetherness to block out the loneliness,

      Hope, is gold, for its gratitude to have, and to hold, with no attitude,

      Patience, is brown, for its solid grounds to depend upon it never let it down,

      Problems, is white, for its only natural to be to the best of my knowledge, it’s a mystery,

      Black, is the beholder, for all sorrow, the rainbow of life, is for today, yesterday and tomorrow

      Eternity, is blue, for its forever to rest in the land of never, never.

      The Cost of Living

      Prices outrageous, money can’t buy

      The cost of living, is gone sky high

      Workers, are working, to earn some dough

      The cost of living, is just a blow,

      Foods, and meats, at the grocery store

      The cost of living, is higher than before,

      You need a million dollars, just to shop

      The cost of living, ought to stop,

      The more money you earn, the more you spend

      With the cost of living, you just can’t win,

      People are begging, for the welfare line

      With the cost of living, is blowing your mind,

      Food in your mouth, or no clothes on your back

      The cost of living, is just a heartbreaking fact,

      People are stinking, for they have no clothes

      The cost of living, supply none of those,

      For you can’t even buy, yourself a friend

      The cost of living, need to come to an end,

      People are dying, just don’t want to see

      That the cost of living, is reality,

      The rest that are living, have swollen heads

      Because, the cost of living, is killing us dead.

      I Got The Will

      I know it’s a hard struggle from the people I got to

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