Remembering My Life in the Hills of Kentucky
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The next day we saw the stooped figure walking up the road. Mommy shaded her eyes with her hand, the way she always did when she was looking into the sun. She began to run toward the woman. She said, “My God, it’s Soph. Something has happened.” I ran behind her. Soph’s clothes were torn and she was streaked with blood from top to bottom. She was crying and shaking. Mommy kept trying to find where she was hurt but Soph pushed Mommy’s hands away and with a woeful voice she said, “Forgive me Charity, forgive me,” over and over again. Mommy put her arms around Soph and held her while she sobbed
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Bert is a young girl growing up in the hills of Kentucky in the 1930s. With a coalminer father and a midwife mother life was never boring or easy, but with the love of her family anything is possible. When the family falls victim to injuries, illness, and a family death that all falls apart. She goes from having a poor happy family to a well off miserable family almost overnight. She starts to feel more like a slave than a daughter, never really fitting in to her new life. All she wants is a place to belong, but does she have to run away from home to fine it?
About the Author
Bertha Lee was born February 2, 1930 in Manchester, Kentucky. She grew up in the hills of Kentucky with no modern convinces. Despite her hard childhood she managed to find her place in this world raising a loving family, showing you that you can overcome any obstacle in life as long as you want it bad enough. At the age of eighty four she decided she wanted to publish her life story; for the world to know and be inspired to follow their dreams.