My Grandmother: A Woman With An Alcoholic

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She mention so many things that it is impossible for me to kept all of them. At the end is a mater of the courage she had has throughout her life. This woman has an incredible heart for me. Even though her parents did not raise her. Dawne mentioned she love her grandmother. She thank her grandmother for truly advise her and for transmit her some of her knowledge. She learned the hard way but now she uses her own experience to help others. This field is in much need of people like Dawne.
She got married at the age of 31 and she never thought she was marrying an “alcoholic”. She figured out he was an alcoholic after marriage. She expended 14 years of her life married to an alcoholic until she finally got divorced. Its incredible how it was normal for her talking about drugs and alcohol that in one way she never figured out behaviors of this gentleman. She then again re married and few years after show found out he was an
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She is very calm and in one way of another transmitted positive energy and thoughts. Everyone has o had struggle in life with any situation. It is a matter of how to handle it. But sometimes you don’t even realized how you had handle situations. Dawne stated that she does not know how she had gone so far in life. She mentioned her three kids are well educated and she has not done what her parents did to her. Another part that impressed me the most is that she has no contact with her family at all neither her kids. Sometimes that could be frustrated it because you need to know your roots. Family should be part of you. She was really honest and mentioned that people envy her family. I think is good that a least she has a good relation with her own kids since she never had a mother. She has been a mother for her kids. She was very open talking about her life in a chronological way. She mentioned her son is homosexual. She seems to agree with that. She handles the situation very normal. She is very

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