Shirley G. Ware
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This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
To the Memory of My Brother: Grady Lee Gerald
Shirley Gerald Ware is the author of The Final Goodbye and the publisher of Fresh! Literary Magazine, an online and quarterly printed publication of local and worldwide talent of short stories, poetry, articles and book reviews. She has written numberless poems and short stories, many have won her awards and honorable mentions. Shirley is Southern born but makes her home in Somerville Massachusetts. Her Literary Magazine has won her high praise by The Somerville Journal and she was featured on the front page as being an unsung hero. The author has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from University of Massachusetts and master’s degree in English Writing from Northeastern University. She devotes much of her time to her writing and publishing career. Currently, the author is near completion of her third novel “So In Love,” and a collections of short stories titled “It Could Happen To You.”
It was the beginning of the holiday season and holiday music charms the air, downtown Boston. The sound of holiday music must have triggered a stir in his memory of a life far in the past. As the years passed, his words and appearance haunted me. His voice saddens my heart, as he was being ushered out of the store by a CVs manager, his eyes burned like fire in my soul. “I have money,” was his parting words, “treat me with respect, I am Somebody Too.”
Years passed and the CVs alcoholic occurrence was buried into my self-consciousness. Slowly, I sat helplessly by as my brother’s developed a drinking problem. His drinking problem worsens over the years and he became the CVs alcoholic. I stood helpless as Grady looked deep into my eyes smelling of rotten meat and pleading for understanding. "Sis!" He said with a glare of a doomed man, "I had it all, but it has been taken away.” Somebody Too is an emotional soul searching read. There are many alcoholics among us today and maybe somebody you know that are considered without self-worth but they’re “Somebody Too.”
Somebody Too is an emotional soul searching plead of several alcoholic's, to understand a society that consider them without self-worth.
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