Still Smiling Through the Storm

<P class=MsoNormal style=TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt>This book is an emotion filled heart-tugging group of words that follows the life experiences of a young girl to a woman. <SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>A lot of these poems give a release of feelings for certain experiences. <SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>I was raped the summer before I started high school. Which I believe this was part of what made me a little hesitant of people. <SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>My assailant was a former acquaintance. <SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Later in life I went through the typical growing up and liking boys that really never paid any attention to me. <SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Then when I was about 21 my grandfather became ill and I learned that he had been in remission for years. <SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>This is when I started to grow up really fast.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>