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Meemaw's Hometown Kitchen
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It’s been a long road for me to get to this place. In 2008, I was kidnapped and held hostage for five months. I was pregnant and scared. From the beginning, my ex had an ulterior motive to have a child with me. He took advantage of me, and the family said to marry him so as not to embarrass them. When I tried to leave, he stabbed me in the abdomen. I managed to escape when my daughter was three months old, but he followed us and nearly beat me to death. Because he was well-known in the community, there were little consequences for him. After my escape, I asked my best friend if he would be willing to act as my bodyguard. I asked, half-jokingly, but he said yes. We soon fell in love and were married after only six weeks. He knew cooking or being in the kitchen was difficult for me because that’s where I had been attacked. So he usually did all the cooking for us...
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My New Life After Going Blind
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“What happens now? What am I going to do?” I found myself constantly asking these questions. It had been a year of painful recovery and harsh reality. After an extensive series of unsuccessful eye surgeries, I was blind. A wife, mother of three, a classroom teacher. In a matter of weeks, my life had drastically changed forever. I chose to spend the endless days sitting and praying for my family and friends, my former students, those at church, missionaries. This became my ministry when it seemed to me, at the time, I could do nothing else. It was extremely difficult to find myself physically disabled and not able to live doing what I loved: taking care of my family and teaching. But I firmly believe in the power of prayer and continued to lift other’s burdens before the Lord. After that first year, I decided a new ‘normal’ had entered my life. My vision was no longer available to me. What was I going to do....
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